Jews and violence : images, ideologies, realities / edited by Peter Y. Medding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medding, Peter, editor.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 18.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews.

Violence--History--20th century.

Violence.

Violence--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Judaism and state--History--20th century.

Judaism and state.

Violence--Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume XVIII of 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' offers a view of Jews and violence. It construes violence broadly, including deviance and crime, verbal threat and incitement, coercion, force and the resort to arms in individual, collective and communal, and state contexts. The essays span events in Israel, Russia, Germany, and the United States.

Contents:

Contents; Symposium; Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities; Essay; Fighting for Palestine and Crimea: Two Jewish Friends from Philadelphia during the First World War and the 1920's; Review Essays; Personal Accounts of the Holocaust: What Can We Glean from Them?; The Slow Death of the Oslo Process; Assimilating, Coalescing, and Spiritual-Seeking: Recent Trends among American Jews; The Political Culture and Social Posture of American Jews; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts

Religion, Thought, and Education Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XIX; Note on Editorial Policy

Notes:

At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-56025-8

1-4237-2693-6

0-19-534778-1

1-4337-0019-0

OCLC:

191818049