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The Invention of the Jewish People
A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups co...
Influences juives en Afrique - Repères historiques et discours idéologiques
En Afrique, existe un réseau juif très vivant de communications et d'échanges culturels et religieux. Depuis le temps d'Abraham, l'Afrique du Nord a été imprégnée de coutumes à la fois juives et païennes. Dans le même temps, des groupes juifs et égyptiens ont remonté le Nil en direction des terres africaines. Les liens entre juifs et Africains ont aussi favorisé l'émergence des Eglises chrétiennes en Afrique. Les contacts avec le monde juif ont amené des Africains à accueillir le message biblique en lui donnant une place dans l'histoire du continent. Les Eglises indépendantes montrent en particulier comment la perspective juive a transformé la théologie apportée par les missionnaires européens et américians en Afrique. Des groupes africains, anciens et nouveaux, tendent à se définir eux-mêmes à partir des rites juifs. L'objectif de ce livre n'est pas seulement de montrer comment la tradition juive a pu atteindre de diverses manières le coeur de l'Afrique. Il invite aussi les chrétiens africains et européens à repenser leur identité chrétienne par rapport au judaïsme et à s'efforcer de promouvoir le dialogue judéo-chrétien.
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Does America’s pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America’s relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself. Israel is an important, valued American ally, yet Mearsheimer and Walt show that, by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America’s and Israel’s long-term security and put other countries – including Britain – at risk.
A Threshold Crossed
"The widely held assumption that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is a temporary situation and that the 'peace process' will soon bring an end to Israeli abuses has obscured the reality on the ground today of Israel's entrenched discriminatory rule over Palestinians. A single authority, the Israeli government, rules primarily over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, populated by two groups of roughly equal size, methodologically privileging Jewish Israelis while repressing Palestinians, most severely in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), made-up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Drawing on years of human rights documentation, case studies and a review of government planning documents, statements by officials and other sources, [this report] examines Israel's treatment of Palestinians and evaluates whether particular Israeli policies and practices in certain areas amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution."--Page 4 of cover.
Muslims and Jews in France
This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization. Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between Muslims and Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an array of self-appointed spokesmen from both communities: Israel's War of Independence in 1948, France's decolonization of North ...
The Crisis of Zionism
Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next generation, the liberal Zionist dream—the dream of a state that safeguards the Jewish people and cherishes democratic ideals—may die. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establish...
Les grands courants de la spiritualité juive
Cet ouvrage présente les principaux courants de pensée qui sont nés, se sont développés ou ont traversé le monde juif. Il propose ainsi une immersion dans l'histoire d'une civilisation qui a traversé les siècles et échangé avec beaucoup d'autres. Un récit y est présenté qui se veut aussi large que possible, sans exclusive quant au choix des sujets. Aucune idée majeure qui s'est développée dans ou autour du judaïsme, n'en a été sciemment omise. En revanche, la trame de narration historicofactuelle en été minorée pour ne retenir que la substantifique moelle, en évitant les énumérations datées. On y trouvera un foisonnement de courants, une richesse spirituelle souvent méconnue, de tous les lieux et de tous les temps dont les Juifs ont été les acteurs ou les témoins.
The New Christian Right
This book of original essays provides an objective and enlightening analysis of the emergence and changing forms of the New Christian Right. The subject is in itself important in contemporary American life, but in addition The New Christian Right reexamines standard theories of social movements and the relationship between religion and politics in America today. The book presents findings from original research, including surveys, personal interviews with elites, analysis of financial documents, reanalysis of existing data, and analysis of direct-mail solicitations and other primary literature. The New Christian Right is balanced and objective rather than partisan and evaluative. Using non-technical and non-jargonistic language, the authors raise questions concerning the nature of religion, the role of status groups, and contemporary directions in American culture.
