Jewish studies in violence : a collection of essays / edited by Roberta Rosenberg Farber, Simcha Fishbane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farber, Roberta Rosenberg, 1944-

Fishbane, Simcha.

Series:

Studies in Judaism

Studies in Judaism.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Violence.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Good and evil.

Marital violence--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Marital violence.

Antisemitism--Great Britain--History.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Violence against.

Jews.

Domestic relations (Jewish law).

Jews--Canada--Québec (Province)--Montréal.

History.

Judaism.

Canada.

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish.

Justice, Administration of (Jewish law).

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Religious aspects--Judaism.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Religious Zionists.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham. Md. : University Press of America, [2007]

Summary:

This collection of essays was compiled in response to the proliferation of violence throughout the modern world. They constitute a multi-disciplinary approach to the intersection of violence with Jewish life and thought. Examined are ancient and modern examples of violence from the perspectives of Jewish studies, philosophy, history, psychology, and sociology. Topics include the philosophical and psychological dimensions of violence and terror in Israel; religious Zionism; an overview of Jewish Law; religious societies in antiquity; anti-Semitism among American workers during World War II; British anti-Semitic symbolism; violence in Canadian Jewish communal life; issues of conscription in Britain during war time; and spousal abuse. In conclusion, David Shatz provides a Jewish perspective on the events of 9/11, followed by an examination of the halakhic response to the problem of evil by Moshe Sokol.

Contents:

The transformation of violent experiences: a psychological perspective / Don J. Brand

Jewish religious communities and wife abuse / Roberta Rosenberg Farber

The treatment of violence and extra-judicial exercise of law and justice in Jewish law / Chaim Povarsky

Jewish violence in antiquity: three dimensions / Meir Bar-Ilan

Legitimate violence in formative Judaism / Jacob Neusner

"Mercy is vouchsafed from Heaven": Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim, sections 560 and 576-8 / Simcha Fishbane

Violence as a factor in the communal life of the Montreal Jewish community in the early twentieth century / Ira Robinson

Anglo-Jewry and military conscription during the Great War / Geoffrey Alderman

Novel anti-semitisms: vampiric reflections of the Jew Britain, 1875-1914 / Sara Libby Robinson

The personification of excess: antisemitism and the wages of alienation / Mark P. Worell

Ploughshares into swords: contemporary religious Zionists and moral constraints / Yitzchak Blau

"From the depths I have called to you": Jewish reflections on September 11th and contemporary terrorism / David Shatz

13. Is there a "Halakhic" response to the problem of evil? / Moshe Sokol.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0761836071

9780761836070

OCLC:

82958778