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Title:

The Jewish condition : challenges and responses--1938-2008 / William B. Helmreich, Mark Rosenblum, David Schimel, editors.

Publisher:

Transaction Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xv, 160 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Jews--History--History--20th century.
Jews--History--History--21st century.
Jews--Politics and government--20th century.
Jews--Politics and government--21st century.
Jews--United States--Politics and government--21st century.
Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Jews--Historiography.

Other Authors:

Helmreich, William B.
Rosenblum, Mark.
Schimel, David.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Back to the future : is it 1938 again? / Malcolm Hoenlein -- Lessons from the past : hopes for the future / Leonard Fein -- What is living and what is dead in Jewish twentieth-century history? / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Can we choose politically between right and left? / Michael Walzer -- Echoes of 1938 / Alan Dershowitz -- The case for bombing Iran / Norman Podhoretz -- The right of world Jewry to criticize Israel / Moshe Halbertal -- The ethical limits and ways of criticizing Israel / Blu Greenberg -- Diaspora criticism and advocacy / Jeff Helmreich -- Saving American Jewry : demography, politics, and destiny / Jack Wertheimer -- 1938 as a paradigm / Lawrence Grossman -- From hatred to love : is it good or bad for the Jews? / Samuel Heilman -- Facing Armageddon : evangelicals and the Jews / Yechiel Eckstein -- Social justice and Jewish survival / David Saperstein -- Europe's "terrible transformation?" / David Pryce-Jones -- If Israel ceased to exist / Hillel Halkin -- Challenges and dangers facing American Jewry / David Harris -- Dilemmas of Jewish survival as seen through the prism of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Susannah Heschel.

ISBN:

1412808022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781412808026 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008001822

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)