Dissident Rabbi
Title | Dissident Rabbi PDF eBook |
Author | Yaacob Dweck |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 2019-08-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691183570 |
In 1665, as Jews abandoned reason for the ecstasy of enthusiasm for self-proclaimed Messiah Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Sasportas watched in horror. Dweck tells the story of the Sephardic rabbi who challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers..
The Eternal Dissident
Title | The Eternal Dissident PDF eBook |
Author | David N. Myers |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520969790 |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and controversial Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, who was renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for his unrelenting commitment to social action. Beerman was a man of powerful word and action—a probing intellectual and stirring orator, as well as a nationally known opponent of McCarthyism, racial injustice, and Israeli policy in the occupied territories. The shared source of Beerman’s thought and activism was the moral imperative of the Hebrew prophets, which he believed bestowed upon the Jewish people their role as the “eternal dissident.” This volume brings Beerman to life through a selection of his most powerful writings, followed by commentaries from notable scholars, rabbis, and public personalities that speak to the quality and ongoing relevance of Beerman’s work.
Prophets Outcast
Title | Prophets Outcast PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Shatz |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560255093 |
Includes writings by Isaac Deutscher, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Leon Trotsky, I. F. Stone, Uri Avnery, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and others.
Jews Against Zionism
Title | Jews Against Zionism PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Kolsky |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2010-05-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439903751 |
The first full-scale history of the only organized American Jewish opposition to Zionism during the 1940s.
Rabbi Outcast
Title | Rabbi Outcast PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Ross |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597978299 |
A pivotal figure in American anti-Zionism.
Intrigue and Revolution
Title | Intrigue and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Yaron Harel |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2015-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789624878 |
Yaron Harel has constructed a dramatic story of how eleven chief rabbis all became the subject of controversy and were subsequently dismissed. This took place against a background of crime and licentiousness rarely documented in the context of Jewish society. Set firmly in the social and political developments of the time, this colourful picture is very different from the commonly accepted image of Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire.
The Jewish Imperial Imagination
Title | The Jewish Imperial Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Yaniv Feller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009321897 |
Shows how the German imperial enterprise affected modern Judaism, through the life and thought of Leo Baeck.