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Here I am
\"In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, 'Abraham!' to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, 'Here I am.' Later, when Isaac calls out, 'My father!' to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, 'Here I am.' How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond the Land
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
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Jewish Odesa
Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in
Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in
Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely
cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted
since the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its
independence.
Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum,
examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of
the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian
national project have all been questioned in recent years.
Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its
progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox
Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish
organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the
city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with
ties to Odesa to change still further.
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Derrida's Marrano Passover : exile, survival, betrayal, and the metaphysics of non-identity
\"The first book devoted to Derrida's Marranism - his paradoxical 'non-Jewish Jewishness' - connecting it to the Derridean themes of exile, survival, betrayal and autobiography\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Zionism
Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is
no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes
liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for
many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust, and those who
reject it are no less passionate than those who embrace it. The
power of such emotions helps explain why a word originally
associated with territorial aspiration has survived so many years
after the establishment of the Israeli state. Zionism: An
Emotional State expertly demonstrates how the energy
propelling the Zionist project originates from bundles of feeling
whose elements have varied in volume, intensity, and durability
across space and time. Beginning with an original typology of
Zionism and a new take on its relationship to colonialism, Penslar
then examines the emotions that have shaped Zionist sensibilities
and practices over the course of the movement's history. The
resulting portrait of Zionism reconfigures how we understand Jewish
identity amidst continuing debates on the role of nationalism in
the modern world.
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Keeping the mystery alive : Jewish mysticism in Latin American cultural production
\"This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. The overarching question is whether the authors presented question, or reproduce literally, traditional renditions of the Jewish mysticism, and how this aspect of their literature and visual art relates to the Latin American canon to which they belong\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hellenic Roots of Justice and Inequality and a Jewish Ideological Alternative in Economic Science
This book explores the philosophical foundations of what we today understand as \"justice\". Here we understand the present tendency in the world to see everything as a class struggle, yet the lack of effectiveness of that view in social arrangements, and for that, a renewed Jewish perspective is offered instead. The book argues that the classical understanding of equality as justice is tainted by an anti-Semitic portrayal of richness, which is completely rejected here. From an economic methodology perspective, it discusses how our present Hellenic view of equality does not do much to help those in need, and proposes a new mechanism of poverty alleviation based on generalized responsibility to help vulnerable neighbors, such as orphans, widows, aliens, the elderly, the sick and the oppressed, then putting the ordinary citizen at the center of social responsibility.
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