Israel In Diaspora Jewish Identity

<p>What is the significance, the contribution, and the role played by the State of Israel, ideologically and practically, in the identity of Diaspora Jews? Contributed chapters explore the impact of Israel's role through a range of issues including: anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, Jewish continuity and Israel visits, the peace process, pro-Israel lobbying, philanthropy, and Israeli language, literature and culture. The place of Israel in the identity of specific sectors of the Diaspora -- such as different religious streams of Judaism, Sephardi Jewry, and the Jewish left -- are assessed with dedicated chapters. And the different role of Israel in the identity of different Diasporas -- including America, Australia, Canada, Russia and CIS, Latin America, France, Britain, and Small European communities -- are discussed. In order to generate and reflect debate, the Voices of Israel and the Diaspora are juxtaposed in a unique editorial format: chapters written by academics, commentators and Jewish professionals from both Israel and the Diaspora are followed by 'viewpoint' analyses on the respective topics by leading Israeli and Diaspora commentators. Diaspora in Zionist thought, and concludes with commentary of the future direction of Israel in Diaspora Jewish identity.</p>

History

Ben-Moshe, Danny

Segev, Zohar

World

Sussex Academic Pr

There is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment-based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat, even if they are creative innovators, would be labeled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life. They see philosophy and society as, at best, a curbing control-structure and, at worst, coercing, stigmatizing, and ostracizing. This volume treads in the giant footsteps of Albert Camus who saw the absurd as the conflictual encounter between the individual and society. Society and the Absurd attempts to overcome this deep sociological controversy by investigating absurdity through the prism of an interdisciplinary theory of personality.

Society And The Absurd: A Sociology Of Conflictual Encounters

Politics & Social Sciences

Shoham, Shlomo Giora

Philosophy

This book is essential reading for all those involved in the psychology of the child. It includes a full color supplement of 140 mosaics.

The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test: Including A Full Colour Supplement with Index

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lowenfeld, Margaret

Psychology & Counseling

The Middle East Strategic Balance, 2005-2006

The most accurate and comprehensive military posture of the countries in the Middle East, containing up-to-date information and figures on defense budgets, procurement, equipment holdings, military deployments, WMD listings, and foreign aid … Features key components of military force structures such as major changes to the orders of battle, and a survey of personnel, weapons and equipment holdings, non-conventional capabilities and ballistic missiles, presented in accessible and easy-to-read formats … The Middle East Strategic Balance is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, to provide an authoritative and indispensable guide to strategic developments and military capabilities in the Middle East. MESB offers a comprehensive insightful assessment of the complex Middle East strategic environment. Governments and the media pay close attention to the data and analysis, and the work is quoted extensively.

The Middle East Strategic Balance 2005-2006

Middle East

The Middle East Strategic Balance 2006-2007

Ã¬GoldsteinÃ­s inclusive historical perspective informs the reader of the many controversies and paradoxes that have marked recent Jewish history.Ã® Nationalism & Ethnic Politics. This book is an enquiry into the central processes and events that changed the course of Jewish history in the modern era, emigration, emancipation, secularization, anti-Semitism, and Zionism. The genesis of these processes derive from the revolutionary upheavals experienced by the Jewish people in the 1870s and 1880s, though their roots, in the form of marginal historical movements, were discerned as early as the seventeenth century. The historical perspective is taken up to present-day Israel.

Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies, Identities and Challenges

Jewish History in Modern Times

Goldstein, Joseph

This is the first book to deal with the self-reflexive nature of narration of Beckett and Bernhard. Samuel Beckett's and Thomas Bernbard's works are representative of a persisting perplexity with regard to language. The texts of both authors are marked by their narrator's obsessive need to write, which is inextricably intertwined with their profound suspicion of language. The perpetuation of the narration is explained as an imperative, a simultaneously conscious and unconscious command which forces the artist to submit to the creative process.The author places this inexplicable force of the imperative within the context of Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory and Jacques Lacan's concept of desire. The attempt to define and interpret the two authors' prose and drama is displaced by this sense of the infinity of desire (Lacan) and by the eternal becoming of the will (Schopenhauer), which reveal themselves to lie at the heart of Beckett's and Bernhard's creativity.

The Imperative of Narration: Beckett, Bernhard, Schopenhauer, Lacan

Literature & Fiction

Wulf, Catharina

History & Criticism

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