State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity: Essays on the "Ever-Dying People"

by Simon Rawidowicz

Overview

This readable, insightful, and thought-provoking collection of essays, presents an original and innovative ideology that stirringly affirms the unity of the Jewish people. Rawidowicz's rich themes include the relationship between the State of Israel and the Diaspora; Jewish "difference" and its repercussions; Jewish learning; and Jewish continuity in the post-Holocaust world. In his foreword to the paper edition, Michael A. Meyer writes, "Forty years after his death, [Rawidowicz's] sober analyses, his realism with regard to both the State of Israel and the Diaspora, and his striving to find unities among dichotomies that divide the Jewish people -- all of these make his images and ideas still worthy of our reflection."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512601572
Publisher:	Brandeis University Press
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Series:	The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	651 KB

About the Author

UZI REBHUN is Lecturer at The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. CHAIM I. WAXMAN is Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, and co-editor of Jews in America (UPNE, 1999).

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Preface Introduction: The Life and Writings of Simon Rawidowicz Israel: The Ever-Dying People Jewish Existence: The End and the Endless On the Concept of Galut Libertas Differendi: The Right to Be Different On Jewish Learning Two That Are One One Continuity or Two? Israel: The People, the State Excerpts from a Correspondence between David Ben-Gurion and Simon Rawidowicz on the State of Israel, the Diaspora, and the Unity of the Jewish People Sanctity, Praise, and Deprecation Jerusalem and Babylon Only from Zion: A Chapter in the Prehistory of Brandeis University The World of Ararat and Its Fortress: From the Letters of Simon Rawidowicz to Alexander Margulies

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"Rich in content, a pleasure to read, an encounter with the first-rate mind of a major historian of Jewish intellectual history reflecting on issues that engaged him passionately."

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"Dr. Rawidowicz is one of the greatest Hebrew scholars of our time." —David Ben-Gurion, The Jewish Chronicle

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