UID:
almafu_9961047439602883
Format:
1 online resource (575 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Content:
Essays in honor of the scholarly work and institutional leadership of Jehuda Reinharz, focusing on the role of the individual in history
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Ideology and Politics; 1 | Theodor Herzl: Charisma and Leadership by Derek J. Penslar; 2 | The President before Weizmann: David Littwak and the Politics of "Old New Land" by Michael Brenner; 3 | Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, and the Altneuland Debate: Between Utopia and Radicalism by Eran Kaplan; 4 | The Vilna Gaon and His Disciples as Precursors of Zionism: The Vicissitudes of a Myth by Immanuel Etkes; 5 | Me'ir Ya'ari and Hashomer Hatza'ir: The Movement Is Me by Aviva Halamish
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6 | "The Wise Woman of Givat Brenner"": Jessie Sampter on Kibbutz, War,and Peace, 1934-1938 by Meir Chazan7 | Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin: Revisiting the Irish-Jewish Connection by Frances Malino; 8 | The Zionist Leadership of Louis D. Brandeis by Evyatar Friesel; 9 | America's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders by Jonathan D. Sarna; 10 | The Rise of Stephen S. Wise as a Jewish Leader by Mark A. Raider; Part II: Statecraft; 11 | Weizmann and Ben-Gurion: Portraits in Contrast by Anita Shapira
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12 | Role, Place, and Time: The Case of Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham in Palestine, 1945-1948 by Motti Golani13 | Bold Decisions: Three Israeli Prime Ministers Who Went against the Grain by Itamar Rabinovich; 14 | Leadership in the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Shai Feldman; 15 | At the Crossroads: Ben-Gurion at War by Shlomo Avineri; 16 | Roosevelt, American Jews,and Rescue Attempts by Yehuda Bauer; 17 | Wasfi al-Tall: An Iconic Incarnation of Jordanianism by Asher Susser; Part III: Intellectual, Social, and Cultural Spheres
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18 | Particularism, Exclusivity, and Monopoly: The History of a Talmudic Statement by Moshe Halbertal19 | "The Individual in Jewish History"": A Feminist Perspective by Shulamit Reinharz; 20 | Thomas Carlyle versus Henry Thomas Buckle: "Great Man" versus "Historical Laws" by Yaacov Shavit; 21 | The Evolution of Roza Georgievna Vinaver: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Politician's Wife in Imperial Russia by ChaeRan Y. Freeze; 22 | Spatial Coherence as Sovereignty by Arnold J. Band; 23 | Exemplary Leaders: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig by Paul Mendes-Flohr; Part IV: Witnessing History
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24 | Inside Kishinev's Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt, and the Burdens of Truth by Steven J. Zipperstein25 | Julian Tuwim: Confronting Antisemitism in Poland by Antony Polonsky; 26 | The Terrible Secret: Some Afterthoughts by Walter Laqueur; 27 | A Testimony to the World of German Orthodox Judaism: A Translation of the Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's Introduction to His Seridei Eish by David Ellenson; 28 | Authors/Survivors/Witnesses-Aharon Appelfeld, Abba Kovner, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel between Literature and Testimony by Dina Porat; Part V: In the Academy
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29 | On a Desperate Postdoc and the Emergence of Modern German Antisemitism by Daniel R. Schwartz
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61168-733-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61168-732-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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