Confronting Omnicide: Jewish Reflections on Weapons Mass Destruction

by Daniel Landes

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461662426
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/1991
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	293
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Rabbi Daniel Landes is a founding faculty member of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California, where he is Director of National Educational Projects. His articles have been published in several magazines, including Tikkun, and he is the co-editor of Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Can the World Survive it Again? Reuvan Kimelman

OUR SITUATION
1 A Vow of DeathDaniel Landes
2 The Dialectics of Power: Reflections in the Light of the Holocaust Irving Greenberg

BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC STUDIES
3 Cataclysm, Survival, and Regeneration in the Hebrew BibleJon D. Levenson
4 Torah and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A View from IsraelPinchas H. Peli
5 A Jewish Understanding of War and Its LimitsReuven Kimelman
6 Nuclear War and the Prohibition of Wanton DestructionDavid Novak

DIALOGIC REFLECTION
7 The Human Situation and the Nuclear ThreatMaurice Friedman
8 A Theology of Fear: The Search for a Liberal Jewish ParadigmDavid Ellenson
9 Bishops, Rabbis, and BombsElliot N. Dorff

JEWISH LAW
10 Confronting OmnicideLord Immanuel Jakobovits
11 Nuclear War through the Prism of Jewish Law:
The Nature of Man and WarJ. David Bleich
12 Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear WarWalter S. Wurzburger

WITNESS
13 From Genocide to Omnicide: The Jewish Imperative to
Save the EarthLouis René Beres
14 Mortality and Nuclear WeaponsEdward Teller
15 Final Solution – Universal?Eliezer Berkovits

Appendix of Rabbinic Scholars and Terminology
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on a variety of Jewish literary sources, including the Bible, rabbinic literature, and Jewish law and thought, the contributors explore different facets of the nuclear threat. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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