NIKMAT HANITZACHON: HaTarbut HaYisraelit Baderech L’Milchemet Yom HaKippurim (Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War) takes a new approach to understanding that period in Israel’s history that led to the Yom Kippur War. Probing Israeli culture during this period enlightens readers regarding aspects of Israel’s society that have not been sufficiently examined to date. Dr. Gavriely-Nuri’s analysis of Israeli culture between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur war makes an important contribution to our understanding war discourse in general, and to the normalization of war in post–1967 Israeli culture in particular. In this new book, Dr. Gavriely-Nuri provides valuable insights into how the 1973 Yom Kippur War could have been such a surprise. Her application of scientific methods from the field of cultural studies to topics that are normally perceived as belonging to the strategic sphere exclusively is an additional important contribution to the field. Dr. Gavriely-Nuri employs an innovative methodology to explain the concept of “strategic surprise” by expanding her research past the narrow military arena, and into a larger investigation of popular Israeli culture. In NIKMAT HANITZACHON, Dr. Gavriely-Nuri demonstrates how the normalization of war discourse established in Israel before and after the Six Day War developed into a dominant national narrative.

Nikmat Hanitzachon (Victory's Revenge): Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War (Hebrew Edition)

History

Gavriely-Nuri, Dr. Dalia

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Israel Academic Press

In RABBIS IN POLITICS Dr. Eliav Taub addresses how Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Elazar Shach, (the “Torah Giants” and Rabbinic leaders who shaped today’s political and religious institutions) achieved their stature and maintained their positions. The book explores how these ultra-Orthodox leaders were able to break through typical stereotypes, and become major national political influences in today’s modern arena. It also reveals how these two Torah Giants, successfully built their personal authority. Rav Shach and Rav Yosef fashioned a new leadership style, which allowed them to create revolutionary political parties never seen before In Israeli Politics. Dr. Taub details how the core policies mandated and actions implemented by Rabbis Shach and Yosef should show us the ways they creatively coped with the conflict and challenges between traditional religious values and a modern worldview in the beginning of the 21st century.

Rabbis In Politics: The Leadership Approaches of Rabbis Ovadia Yosef & Elazar Shach

Taub, Eliav

World

Is there an Israeli nation? How is it related to the historical “Jewish People”? How is it related to the Zionist movement? Under what conditions could non-Jews become equal members of this nation? These and other questions stand at the center of the Moshe Berent’s “A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic”. The mission of the Zionist movement was to work toward the normalization of Jewish existence: to become “a nation like all nations.” Israel, contrary to that aspiration, is not a normal nation-state, since according to the formal national ethos it belongs to the “Jewish people” and there is no recognized Israeli nation. Dr. Berent asserts that the fusion of nationality and religion, together with the absence of a normal nation-state are the source of Israel’s basic problems and are responsible for Israel’s powerlessness to solve problems – i.e. the status of religion in public life; The relations between seculars and religious; the status of non-Jews, especially Arabs; the absence of a constitution; the inability to agree about borders, or to decide about peace and war. “A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic” makes the case that a separation between nationality and religion, the recognition in the existence of an Israeli nation, and the establishment of Israel as a republic – as the State of the Israeli nation is a pre-condition for finding the solution of all of these problems.

A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic

Politics & Social Sciences

Berent, Dr. Moshe

Politics & Government

“Jews Without Power” is sure to raise some eyebrows among historians and within the Jewish community. It is commonly accepted today that the United States did little to aid or resscue European Jewry during the Holocaust. Many also blame the American Jewish community for not pressuring the Administration to act for recue. Almost without exception, Jews interviewed today criticize the United States' passive role and express the sentiment that they would not have “stood idly by” while 6 million of their brethren died. In “Jews Without Power,” Ariel Hurwitz, an historian and expert on the Holocaust, examines the role played by the American Jewish leadership during this crucial period. The social and political environment in which Jews existed was so extraordinarily different from the milieu of today, says Hurwitz, that it is difficult to understand the constraints under which the leadership operated.  Relying on the vast archival information from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, the National Archives, the Lehman Library at Columbia University and the archives of many Jewish organizations, Hurwitz methodically reviews the events and decisions of the war-time years, seeking to shed light on why the American Jewish leadership did not exert more pressure on President Roosevelt and the political leadership of the time. He presents the information in a readable manner, drawing conclusions about the Jews' failure to act without sounding accusing or apologetic. For those who blame Roosevelt or the Jewish leadership for not doing enough, this book sheds new light on the issues and the challenges they faced and why one could argue that their hands were tied. Our hindsight and the graphic knowledge of what befell European Jewry may not make us any more comfortable accepting America's passivity, but the facts provided by Hurwitz offer plausible explanations within the world of realpolitik.

JEWS WITHOUT POWER (Newly Updated Edition): American Jewry During The Holocaust

Hurwitz, Dr. Ariel

Once shunned, interdisciplinarity has now become fashionable—but badly in need of unpacking. The transfer of ideas from one field to another requires full understanding of the ways in which they are used and understood, where they come from and where they are going. This book calls attention to certain linguistic tools that served scholars in the past and that are still relevant today–if properly employed. It offers a roadmap that inter-relates problems within and between the sciences–human and natural. Throughout, the book interpolates excerpts from scholarly texts that light the road. Spelling out how research may go beyond the mere assembly of facts, it invites the reader to join a sequence of steps that highlights the processes which problem solving entails. Ruth Katz (Ph.D. Columbia University) is one of the founding members of the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon receiving the prestigious Israel Prize in 2012, her work was cited for shedding light on such things as the interdisciplinary processes implicated in “the origin of opera, the history of Western notation, the relationship of stylistic change to the history of ideas, music’s place in philosophy, and the role of musical aesthetics in cognition.” She founded the Excellence Program at the University and co-founded the Laboratory for the study of music. Her most recent book, hailed as “magisterial,” is entitled A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music (University of Chicago Press, 2009). It is an analysis of the decisions that underlay the crafting and understanding of stylistic change.

The Discursive March of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Roadmap

Katz, Ruth

Philosophy

he Jewish diasporic experience stands out in its remarkable scope, duration and cohesiveness. Communication is the dynamic mechanism that negotiates the interplay of these factors; hence this volume on Jewish Diasporic Communications. The Jewish Diaspora is unique in another way too: through most of their exilic experience, Jews did not have a geographical center to which they could orient themselves. The perspective guiding this volume is that the center of the Jewish Diaspora has been the communicative network linking its scattered communities in space, and the media serving its continuity through historical time. This Diasporic network has sustained a common flow of shared content between Jews and Jewish communities, let alone the imagination of connectedness. Thus, Diaspora Jews as Jews, and the People they comprise, existed-to invoke John Dewey-"in communication." The studies in this volume, spanning antiquity and modernity and crossing disciplinary boundaries, provide together a broad-ranging and in-depth account of how a People can survive for millennia, without a homeland, but in communication.

Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: Two Thousand Years of Saying Goodbye Without Leaving

Blondheim, Menahem

Rosenberg, Hananel

The eastern part of the Mediterranean is witnessing some of the most intriguing, and dangerous events in today’s world. It features weak or collapsed states, direct and proxy wars, and a confluence of great power stakes. In recent years a new and significant element has been added to the region’s troubled search for equilibrium: the discovery of substantial treasures of offshore energy. These energy discoveries are widely recognized as a game-changer. This volume investigates the extent of this change and the range of its implications. The Eastern Mediterranean has historically been a meeting point of east and west, of the economic north and south and of three major world religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. However, this volume proposes to view the Eastern Mediterranean as a separate “new” region, and not as a mere extension of neighboring continents or even of the Middle East. This analytical frame stands at the center of the book.

Conflict & Prosperity: Geopolitics and Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Stergiou, Andreas

Ulusoy, Kivanc

منذ‭ ‬نهاية‭ ‬القرن‭ ‬السابع‭ ‬الميلادي‭ ‬إلى‭ ‬العصر‭ ‬الحديث،‭ ‬ساد‮ ‬في‭ ‬العالم‭ ‬الإسلامي‮ ‬الاعتراف‭ ‬بالصخرة‭ ‬الموجودة‭ ‬في‭ ‬الحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ - ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬كموقع‭ ‬هيكل‭ ‬سليمان‭ ‬والهيكل‭ ‬بناه‭ ‬اليهود‭ ‬العائدون‭ ‬من‭ ‬بابل،‭ ‬كأساس‭ ‬لتقديسها‭ ‬على‭ ‬ايدي‭ ‬الإسلام ولبناء‭ ‬قبة‭ ‬الصخرة في‭ ‬سنة‭ ‬ 27 ‭ ‬هـ‭. ‬هذا‭ ‬التقليد‭ ‬هو‭ ‬بمثابة‭ ‬تبني‭ ‬التقاليد‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬في‭ ‬هذا‭ ‬الموضوع،‭ ‬وتُعرف‭ ‬العقيدة‭ ‬الإسلامية‭ ‬كاستمرار‭ ‬لفكرة‭ ‬التوحيد،‭ ‬من‭ ‬إبراهيم‭ ‬خليل‭ ‬الله‭ ‬وإلى‭ ‬النبي‭ ‬محمد‭ ‬صَلَّى‮ ‬ٱللّٰهُ‮ ‬عَلَيْهِ‮ ‬وَسَلَّمَ ،‭ ‬والخلفاء‭ ‬والسلاطين‭ ‬الذين‭ ‬تبعوه‭.‬‮ ‬تستعرض‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬لأول‭ ‬مرة‭ ‬على‭ ‬نطاق‭ ‬واسع‭ ‬العديد‭ ‬من‭ ‬المصادر‭ ‬الإسلامية‭ ‬القديمة‭ ‬التي‭ ‬تعترف‭ ‬بالصلة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬ووجود‭ ‬تاريخ‮ ‬يهودي‭ ‬في‮ ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬والقدس‭, ‬مع‭ ‬الاشارة‭ ‬الى‭ ‬واقتباس‮ ‬التقاليد‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬القديمة‭ ‬التي‭ ‬تقوم‭ ‬عليها‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬المصادر‭.‬\n‭ ‬بالمقارنة،‭ ‬تستعرض‭ ‬هذة‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬المؤلفين‭ ‬المسلمين‭ ‬المعاصرين‭ ‬الذين‭ ‬ينكرون‭ ‬الصلة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬والتاريخ‭ ‬اليهودي‭ ‬بالحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ ‬ويزعمون‭ ‬أنه‭ ‬لم‭ ‬يوجد‭ ‬أي‭ ‬معبد‭ ‬يهودي‭ ‬في‭ ‬القدس‭ ‬أصلا وليس‭ ‬لليهود‭ ‬أي‭ ‬علاقة‭ ‬تاريخية‭ ‬أو‭ ‬دينية‭ ‬بموقع‭ ‬المسجد‭ ‬الاقصى‭ - ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭. ‬يشكل‭ ‬هذا‭ ‬الإنكار‭ ‬اساسا‭ ‬لقرارات‭ ‬اليونسكو‭ ‬من‭ ‬السنوات‭ ‬الأخيرة،‭ ‬متجاهلة‭ ‬التاريخ‭ ‬والقداسة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬والمسيحية‭ ‬في‭ ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬ومواقع‭ ‬دينية‭ ‬أخرى‭.‬‭ ‬\nيدعون‭ ‬الباحثون‭ ‬في‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬أن‭ ‬منكري‭ ‬الارتباط‭ ‬اليهودي‭ ‬بالحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ ‬يلحقون‭ ‬الأذى‭ ‬دون‭ ‬قصد‭ ‬بشرعية‭ ‬حرمة‭ ‬موقع‭ ‬المسجد‭ ‬الأقصى‭ ‬وقبة‭ ‬الصخرة‭ ‬للإسلام،‭ ‬كما‭ ‬يشكون‭ ‬في‭ ‬مصداقية‮ ‬أهم‭ ‬المصادر‭ ‬العربية‭ ‬والاسلامية،‭ ‬وهي‭ ‬أصول‭ ‬ثقافتهما‮ ‬وهويتهما‭.‬

قدس أقداسنا قدس أقداسهم ... و (Arabic Edition)

Reiter, Yitzhak

Dimant, Dvir

Middle East

From Two Stories to One . . . Many historians have chronicled the tragic and persistent struggle between the peoples of Palestine and Israel, revealing the separate national stories generated and held close by both sides. But this book tells the story of Israel and Palestine from a unique perspective. Over two decades ago, Jack Berriault, founder of The Israel Palestine Project, asked the question, "What would be possible if Palestinians and Israelis embraced a single, common narrative in which both peoples were equally represented, understood and honored?" The journey of exploration and discovery that followed produced the book you now hold in your hands. Jack Berriault (1930-2016), Principal author and editor of Israel and Palestine: A Common Historical Narrative, was a visionary in the field of transformational theory and practice, and a life-long champion of a world at peace that works for all, with no one left behind. More information on Jack, and on his collaborators, Rick Phillips and Nancy Black, is available at https: //www.israelpalestineproject.org. "Essential reading for Palestinians and Israelis alike, and for anyone encountering this conflict for the first time.... A well-crafted story, carefully balanced and simply told!" - Moshe Ma'oz, Professor Emeritus in Middle East History and Islam, Hebrew University. "By taking no side in the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, . . . [this book] takes both sides, which is the side of Humanity!" - Richard Forer, author of Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity - Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine.

Israel and Palestine: A Common Historical Narrative (Multilingual Edition)

Berriault, Jack

This scholarly, incisive, and thought-provoking book provides an in-depth account of Israel’s rebuilding of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem after the 1967 Six Day War, in the context of approaches to post-war restoration and heritage preservation and development, both local and worldwide. Inward-directed heritage development and its importance to collective identity, and outward directed heritage development (primarily tourist but also strategic and political) were decisive concerns. The rebuilding of the Jewish Quarter is compared to contemporary preservation old cities of Jaffa, Acre and Safed, activity in the historic to heritage conservation in Old Cairo, and to postwar conservation of Beirut, Warsaw and York.

Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter: Heritage and Postwar Restoration

Kark, Ruth

Slae, Bracha

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