Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XVIII: Jews and Violence: Images. Ideologies, Realities

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ISBN: 9780195160093 | 0195160096
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Copyright: 3/27/2003

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This is the newest volume of the annual Studies In Contemporary Jewry series. It contains original essays on Jews and crime in fact, fantasy, and fiction; verbal and physical violence in Israeli politics; Jews as revolutionaires; armed resistance by Jews in Nazi Germany; ethical dilemmas within the Israeli Defense Forces; violence in Israeli society and social stress; and other topics. As with other volumes, it also contains review essays and book reviews.

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Preface	p. vii
Symposium: Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities	p. 1
The State and the Legitimate Use of Force and Coercion in Modern Halakhic Thought	p. 3
Notes	p. 16
They Fought Because They Were Fighters and They Fought Because They Were Jews: Violence and the Construction of Modern Jewish Identity	p. 23
Notes	p. 38
Jews, Violence, and the Russian Revolutionary Movement	p. 43
Notes	p. 55
Speaking of the Devil in Yiddish Literature	p. 59
Notes	p. 71
The Use of Military Force in the Religious Zionist Ideology of Rabbi Yitzhak Ya'Akov Reines and His Successors	p. 74
Notes	p. 88
Crime and Redemption? American Jewish Gangsters, Violence, and the Fight Against Nazism	p. 95
Notes	p. 105
Reflections on Jewish Resistance Under the Nazi German Occupation	p. 109
Notes	p. 124
Violence in Israeli Society: Its Relation to Social Stress	p. 126
Notes	p. 144
The Voice of Jacob and the Hands of Esau: Verbal and Physical Violence in Israeli Politics, 1977-1984	p. 149
Notes	p. 164
Corporal Punishment in Jewish Education: a Philosophical-Educational Exploration	p. 168
Notes	p. 183
Haredi Violence in Contemporary Israeli Society	p. 186
Notes	p. 196
Essay	p. 199
Fighting for Palestine and Crimea: Two Jewish Friends from Philadelphia During the First World War and the 1920s	p. 201
Notes	p. 213
Review Essays	p. 217
Personal Accounts of the Holocaust: What Can We Glean from Them?	p. 219
Notes	p. 232
The Slow Death of the Oslo Process	p. 233
Notes	p. 239
Assimilating, Coalescing, and Spiritual-Seeking: Recent Trends Among American Jews	p. 240
The Political Culture and Social Posture of American Jews	p. 247
Notes	p. 254
Book Reviews	p. 255
Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide	p. 257
Notes	p. 265
Notes	p. 275
Notes	p. 278
History and the Social Sciences	p. 279
Language, Literature, and the Arts	p. 298
Religion, Thought, and Education	p. 302
Notes	p. 304
Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East	p. 315
Note on Editorial Policy	p. 328
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