Wrestling with an Angel : Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
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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