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Cambridge University Press Spinozas Revelation
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America
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Cambridge University Press Class Struggle in the Pale
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Cambridge University Press A Genealogy of Evil
Book SynopsisBased on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the Nazis to the Muslim Brotherhood to the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Sudan, the Iranian Islamic Republic, and other groups with an anti-Semitic worldview. Based on his close reading of numerous Jihadist texts, Patterson critiques their antisemitic teachings and affirms the importance of Jewish teaching, concluding that humanity needs the very Jewish teaching and testimony that the Jihadists advocate destroying.Trade Review'In A Genealogy of Evil, David Patterson examines the texts of key contributors to the twentieth-century Islamist tradition, including Abdul Al'a Maududi, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hassan al-Banna, and Sayyid Qutb, as well their successors in recent decades, and probes the influence, confluence, and parallels between their views and National Socialism. He offers readers an effective synthesis of the growing historical and social science writing about Islamism while adding a distinctive interpretation rooted in his understanding of theology. His discussions of martyrdom and attitudes toward death provide important conceptual clarification about similarities as well as differences between Nazism and Islamic Jihadism. Much research remains to be done on these issues. Patterson's work should serve as an important source in present and future debates and discussions.' Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park'Patterson's extensive inquiry into the origins and spread of Islamic jihad ought to be wide[ly] read … [He] ought to be congratulated for his thorough research and well-written narrative.' The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsIntroduction: the essence of the Jihadist evil; 1. Nazi ideology and Jihadist echoes; 2. Modern Jihadist ideological foundations; 3. The Nazi seed in Islamic soil; 4. The evil spreads: the Muslim Brotherhood; 5. Jihadist brothers: the Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas; 6. 'Religious' offshoots: the Islamic revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda; 7. 'Secular' offshoots: the Baath Party and the PLO; 8. Concluding thoughts: humanity's need for Israel.
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Cambridge University Press The Jewess in NineteenthCentury British Literary Culture
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Cambridge University Press Slavery the State and Islam
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas
Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas' central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships. He explores the religious, cultural and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture and how it relates to our conception of selfhood and what it is to be a person, our understanding of the ground of moral values, our experience of time and the meaning of history, and our experience of religious concepts and discourse. Includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. An excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work and even for those without a background in philosophy.Trade Review'The writings of Emmanuel Levinas deserve a place as central to the discipline of moral philosophy. Michael Morgan's riveting study provides a point of access available to all. Crossing the range of Levinas's thought, Morgan provides [a] model of philosophical elaboration: patient, interrogative, and, at every turn, argumentatively suggestive. This book immediately takes its place as the best introduction to Levinas's philosophy available.' J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research'Morgan provides a clear and comprehensive introduction by situating Levinas's thought within three contexts: problems about the authority of ethics and normativity faced by other recent philosophers from the Anglo-American as well as the Continental traditions; Levinas's two corpora, consisting of philosophical and Jewish writings; and the atrocities of the twentieth century. The result is as helpful to newcomers as it is illuminating to those who are already familiar with Levinas's challenging philosophy.' Paul Franks, University of Toronto'Situating Levinas's thought within twentieth-century debates on the sources of normativity, The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas argues for the originality of Levinas's position as an account of ordinary life and what it is to live that life meaningfully and morally. Michael Morgan makes Levinas's writings approachable without sacrificing their philosophical complexity or the depth of the ethical experience they attempt to convey. His book sharpens the terms of debate over Levinas's ethics, brings new and important voices into the conversation, and challenges readers to move beyond standard interpretations. More than a simple introduction, this book is a deftly guided tour of the thorniest issues confronting those who seek to understand Levinas and his work. Morgan has brought us a book destined to change how we read Levinas today.' Diane Perpich, Clemson UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Responding to atrocity in the twentieth century; 2. How to read Levinas: normativity and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Subjectivity and the self: passivity and freedom; 6. God, philosophy, and the ground of the ethical; 7. Time, history, and messianism; 8. Greek and Hebrew; Conclusions, puzzles, problems; Annotated reading list and bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Jew in the Medieval Book English Antisemitisms 1350 1500 60 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 60
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the Jewish image in the period following the Jews' expulsion from England in 1290. The texts are analysed in their manuscript and print contexts in order to show local responses and changing meanings. This important work opens up fresh texts, sources and approaches for understanding medieval anti-semitism and shows how anti-semitic stereotypes came to be such potent images which would endure far beyond the Middle Ages.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… a tremendous book … meticulously researched and lucidly composed …' Studies in the Age of ChaucerReview of the hardback: '… outstanding … nuanced and historically grounded … [offering] a contextualized and scholarly approach to the subject.' The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: '… an important contribution …' Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryReview of the hardback: '… wide-ranging … subtle … valuable.' The Year's Work in English StudiesReview of the hardback: 'Bale ably combines capacious palaeographical study, insightful multidisciplinary readings, and fully documented and beautifully written prose. … This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read.' Medium AevumReview of the hardback: 'The Jew in the Medieval Book is an outstanding contribution … Bale is fluent in the latest theoretical innovations and very much engaged with confronting the ugly role that antisemitism continues to play on the world stage. What is so impressive about this volume is the way that Bale manages to weave this theoretical sophistication together with his smart and learned understandings of these medieval objects … This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval representations of Jews, but its deep engagement with history and with manuscript culture should make this book important to many other scholars as well … I strongly recommend it to anyone with interests in medieval spirituality, manuscript studies, and questions of gender and sexuality.' SpeculumReview of the hardback: 'Bale's research, detailing the representation of the Jew in the words and images of medieval manuscripts, simultaneously marks a particularly necessary intervention into, and departure from the established conversation about the Jew in medieval England. … This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read …' Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of DaytonReview of the hardback: '… offers new and insightful analyses of the Jew in the medieval book …' Anglia Newspaper for English PhilologyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgement; Conventions; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. History: time, nationhood and the Jew of Tewkesbury; 3. Miracle: shifting definitions in 'The miracle of the boy singer'; 4. Cult: the resurrections of Robert of Bury; 5. Passion: the Arma Christi in medieval culture; Appendix 1: Versions of 'The miracle of the boy singer'; Appendix 2: John Lydgate, 'Praier to St Robert'; Appendix 3: Vernacular English Arma Christi image-text rolls and codices; Appendix 4: Verses on the Arma Christi; Notes; Bibliographies; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe. Robert Chazan
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Cambridge University Press Art and Judaism in the GrecoRoman World Toward a New Jewish Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press The Price of Freedom Denied
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Cambridge University Press Saddam Husseins Bath Party Inside an Authoritarian Regime Author Joseph Sassoon published on December 2011
Book SynopsisThe Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned.Trade Review'Sassoon's writing is calm and deliberate.' The Times Literary Supplement'In Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, Joseph Sassoon has worked his way through the meticulous records in the archives to put together what is a fascinating portrait of the regime, explaining how the Ba'th Party was organized, its relationship with the army, the security organizations, the personality cult around Saddam, and how the regime extended its control over all aspects of life in Iraq.' Emma Sky, International Affairs'In this well-written and extensively researched volume, Joseph Sassoon … provides critical insights into the functioning of the Ba'thist party and regime. Deftly analyzing the party's internal structure, intelligence organizations, and relationship with the military, as well as Saddam's personality cult, patterns of control and resistance, and bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th, [he] weaves a fascinating narrative of social control and repression.' Eric Davis, Perspectives on Politics'… an impressively researched and perceptive book.' Weldon C. Matthews, Arab Studies JournalTable of Contents1. The rise of the Ba'th party; 2. Party structure and organization; 3. The Ba'th party branches; 4. Security organizations during the Ba'th era; 5. The Ba'th and the army; 6. The personality cult of Saddam Hussein; 7. Control and resistance; 8. Bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th.
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Cambridge University Press The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
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Cambridge University Press The African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Cambridge University Press Zionism and AntiSemitism in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany. It analyzes the nature of modern German anti-Semitism, the decision-making process precipitating the Nazi mass murder of European Jews, and the role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust.Trade Review'Francis Nicosia's book contains extensive archival material on one of the most controversial topics in German-Jewish history … This will ensure a place for it in every library collection on German-Jewish Studies.' The European Legacy'[The author's] laudable book notably abstains from any moral indignation or anti-Zionist posturing.' Journal of Central European History'University of Vermont historian Francis R. Nicosia has presented an impressive study of the relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in the Third Reich … Nicosia vehemently rejects the argument that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. The necessary contact and the level of cooperation of the German Zionists with the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1941 can in no way be construed as a secret arrangement or collaboration.' Jüdische Allgemeine'Nicosia has analyzed an impressive number of documents from German and Zionist archives … In [the] important … chapter [on] the cooperation between Zionists and National Socialists, Nicosia emphasizes that in no way was it about equal parties, but rather about the persecutors and those they persecuted - and that the latter were sent to their deaths as soon as the Nazi state no longer had any use for them.' translated from Frankfürter Allgemeine ZeitungTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The age of emancipation in imperial Germany; 3. The Weimar years; 4. 1933: Nazi confusion, Zionist illusion; 5. Zionism in Nazi Jewish policy, 1934–8; 6. German Zionism, 1934–8: confrontation with reality; 7. Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934–8; 8. Zionist occupational retraining and Nazi Jewish policy; 9. From dissolution to final solution; 10. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
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Cambridge University Press Jihad in the West The Rise of Militant Salafism
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Cambridge University Press Crisis Revolution and Russian Jews
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Cambridge University Press A History of Muslims Christians and Jews in the Middle East
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment 18901933
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Cambridge University Press Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia
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Cambridge University Press The Visual Culture of Chabad
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Cambridge University Press The Forgotten Diaspora
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas
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Cambridge University Press Clandestine Political Violence Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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Cambridge University Press American Jewry
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Cambridge University Press The Price of Freedom Denied
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Cambridge University Press The Jew the Cathedral and the Medieval City
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Cambridge University Press David BenGurion and the Jewish Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Prophecy and Politics Socialism Nationalism and the Russian Jews 18621917 Cambridge Paperback Library
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Cambridge University Press Counting Islam
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Fertility
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration 1948 1967
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society The Berti of Sudan 78 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 78
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Cambridge University Press Virtuosity Charisma and Social Order
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Cambridge University Press Jews and Revolution in NineteenthCentury Russia
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Cambridge University Press The Arabic Literary Heritage
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Cambridge University Press The Arabic Literary Heritage
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Cambridge University Press Crisis Revolution and Russian Jews
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Christian Zionism
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Cambridge University Press An Empire of Facts
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Cambridge University Press The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane
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Cambridge University Press Jihad in Saudi Arabia Violence and PanIslamism since 1979 33 Cambridge Middle East Studies
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Cambridge University Press Englands Jewish Solution Experiment and Expulsion 12621290 37 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration 19481967
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Cambridge University Press Assimilation and Community
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Cambridge University Press Jews and Blacks Early Modern World
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and unpublished in English, it addresses some basic scholarly questions: What do primary sources tell us about relations between early modern Blacks and Jews? What do Jewish sources, textual and archival, convey about Blacks? If Jews lived according to Jewish law, did Jewish behavior toward their slaves take shape under its influence? What does the Jewish legal tradition say about slavery and behavior toward slaves? Is there a connection between Jewish textual attitudes toward Blacks and Jewish behavior toward them? If so, how do the two inform one another? Attempting to move beyond inter-ethnic polemics, this book constructs a cultural and social portrait of Jews - mostly Sephardic - amid a larger socio-economic context, one from which Jews dTrade Review"...superb..." -Itinerario"A work of immense scholarship and elegant writing--encyclopedic in scope." -Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies"The study as a whole is an important contribution to research and should be read by all thsoe interested in understanding the formation of the modern Jewish mentality." -Abraham Melamed, University of Haifa"Schorsch has written an imposing and illuminating[...]book on an important and often polemically cahrged subject. Ideally, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World will be a major contribution to that yet-to-be-written history of the origins and development of European racism." -April G. Shelford, American University, American Jewish HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Abravanel's ambivalent Africans; 3. Jews and their slaves: theory and reality; 4. Blacks in Jewish society East of the Atlantic; 5. Moshe's Kushite wife; 6. Imagining Kushites; 7. Explorations in the cross-cultural genealogy of the curse of Ham; 8. Inventing Jewish whiteness in the seventeenth-century Western Sephardic diaspora; 9. The religious life of slaves belonging to Jews in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and English colonies; 10. Into the enlightenment: Jews and Blacks in the long eighteenth century; 11. Conclusion; 12. Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press Jews and Revolution in NineteenthCentury Russia
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