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Abraham : the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer / Alan M. Dershowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dershowitz, Alan M., author.
- Series:
- Jewish encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- Jews.
- Jewish lawyers--History.
- Jewish lawyers.
- Abraham (Biblical patriarch).
- Abraham.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 187 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- "The best-selling author of Taking the Stand presents a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers to profile influential figures from the biblical Abraham and Louis Brandeis through Max Hirschberg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,"--Novelist.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Jewish lawyer
- God meets Abram-and so do we
- God tests Abraham and Abraham passes-at least the first test
- Abraham refuses to argue with God and with his wife over the lives of his children-failing god's next test
- Abraham negotiates to buy a burial cave for Sarah
- The trial of Jesus, the conviction of the Jews, and the blood libel
- Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Rudolf Slansky, Anatoly Sharansky, and other Jews on trial
- The Jewish lawyer as Abrahamic idol smasher, advocate, collaborator, rescuer, and deal-maker
- Epilogue : the future of Abraham's descendants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805242935
- 0805242937
- OCLC:
- 902854303
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