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Wrestling with an Angel : Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300129298
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wrestling with an AngelDDC classification:
  • 296.3/6
LOC classification:
  • DS143.L8913 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Identity and National Ethos -- Part One: The Will to Power -- 1 Power, Freedom, and Political Independence in Jewish Thought -- 2 Shame, Guilt, and Suffering in Jewish Culture until Modern Times -- 3 The Shame of Exile and the Zionist Recovery of Jewish Dignity -- 4 "The Remnant of Israel -- 5 The Wager in Greenberg's The Ways of the River -- 6 Messianism and Realism -- Part Two: The Moral Price of Sovereignty -- 7 Criticism of the Idea of Sovereignty in Non-Zionist Thought -- 8 Sovereignty and Jewish Commitment after the Holocaust in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim, George Steiner, and Irving Greenberg -- Part Three: Power and Jewish Identity in Israeli Public Discourse -- 9 Sovereignty and Power in Zionist Debate during the Mandate Period -- 10 Reacting to Arab Terror -- 11 Halakha and Morality in Religious Zionism after the Six-Day War -- 12 Persecuted or Persecutor? -- 13 Challenging the Zionist Ethos -- Conclusion: Politics in Israel as a Test of Judaism -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Identity and National Ethos -- Part One: The Will to Power -- 1 Power, Freedom, and Political Independence in Jewish Thought -- 2 Shame, Guilt, and Suffering in Jewish Culture until Modern Times -- 3 The Shame of Exile and the Zionist Recovery of Jewish Dignity -- 4 "The Remnant of Israel -- 5 The Wager in Greenberg's The Ways of the River -- 6 Messianism and Realism -- Part Two: The Moral Price of Sovereignty -- 7 Criticism of the Idea of Sovereignty in Non-Zionist Thought -- 8 Sovereignty and Jewish Commitment after the Holocaust in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim, George Steiner, and Irving Greenberg -- Part Three: Power and Jewish Identity in Israeli Public Discourse -- 9 Sovereignty and Power in Zionist Debate during the Mandate Period -- 10 Reacting to Arab Terror -- 11 Halakha and Morality in Religious Zionism after the Six-Day War -- 12 Persecuted or Persecutor? -- 13 Challenging the Zionist Ethos -- Conclusion: Politics in Israel as a Test of Judaism -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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