[PDF] The Eternal Dissident eBook

Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520969790

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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.

Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520065192

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For Lowith, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which Lowith, unlike Heidegger, deems incompatible with the will to power.

Author : Yaniv Feller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009321897

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Shows how the German imperial enterprise affected modern Judaism, through the life and thought of Leo Baeck.

Author : Marc Epprecht
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773527515

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Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

Author : Koenraad De Wolf
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080286743X

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This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work.

Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1108832784

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Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Author : Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438425201

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Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

Author : Tony Shaw
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0231544928

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Winner, 2023 Shapiro Best Book Award, Association for Israel Studies From Frank Sinatra’s early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg’s present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways in which Hollywood’s moguls, directors, and actors have supported or challenged Israel for more than seven decades. They explore the complex story of Israel’s relationship with American Jewry and illuminate how media and soft power have shaped the Arab-Israeli conflict. Shaw and Goodman draw on a vast range of archival sources to demonstrate how show business has played a pivotal role in crafting the U.S.-Israel alliance. They probe the influence of Israeli diplomacy on Hollywood’s output and lobbying activities, but also highlight the limits of ideological devotion in high-risk entertainment industries. The book details the political involvement with Israel—and Palestine—of household names such as Eddie Cantor, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Redgrave, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert De Niro, and Natalie Portman. It also spotlights the role of key behind-the-scenes players like Dore Schary, Arthur Krim, Arnon Milchan, and Haim Saban. Bringing the story up to the moment, Shaw and Goodman contend that the Hollywood-Israel relationship might now be at a turning point. Shedding new light on the political power that images and celebrity can wield, Hollywood and Israel shows the world’s entertainment capital to be an important player in international affairs.

Author : Aage Storm Borchgrevink
Publisher : Polity
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0745672205

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This is an authoritative account of the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik - the Norwegian who, on 22 July 2011, carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe.