Tremors in Israel-Diaspora Relations
The Jerusalem Jewish Community, Ottoman Authorities, And Arab Population In The Second Half of The Eighteenth Century: A Chapter Of Local History
The disintegration of the central Ottoman government in the eighteenth century had a significant impact on the situation in Jerusalem. This paper investigates the relations in the second half of that century between one minority group in the city (the Jewish community) and the Ottoman authorities in Jerusalem and in Damascus, the capital of the Sancak, as well as the Jewish community’s relations with the Arab population of Jerusalem. The paper is based on a new historical source that has recently been discovered: the original account books of the Jewish community in Jerusalem of eleven years in the second half of the eighteenth century (between 1760 and 1796).
The Brazilian Jewish Polity in a Democratizing Society: The Israelite Federation of Rio De Janiero State
More Than a Truce: The Cold War Between the PLO and Hamas
Prospects for Israeli-Indian Security Relations
An Economist Looks at Post-Socialist Russia
The Peace Process and the Jewishness of the Jewish State
The Jewish State and Democracy
The Vacuum in Moral Leadership in Israel and the Alternatives for Filling It
Non-Proliferation Agreements, Territories, and Regional Nuclear War
The Double Quincentenary: Jewish Themes in the 1492-1992 Commemorations
The Israel – PLO Agreement : Palestinian Perspectives
The Economic Impact of Peace
An Anthropological and Postmodern Critique of Jewish Feminist Theory
Anthropologists believe that cultures operate as whole systems and that subsystems such as religions cannot be understood outside the context of the larger culture in which they operate. Religion, then, is simply an analytical category that bounds certain behavior clusters, but does not encompass the totality of a culture. Postmodernists espouse “a wariness toward generalizations which transcend the boundaries of culture and reason.” Together, these two methods of inquiry suggest that it is not possible to separate religion from culture or knowledge from the particular “knower.”
Jewish Responses to the Nazi Threat, 1933-1939: An Evaluation
The Nazi persecution of German Jewry between 1933 and 1939 elicited a strong response from virtually every corner of the Jewish world. Jewish responses were, however, limited by the political and economic weaknesses of diaspora Jewish communities at the time. Lacking a strong-willed defender, the Jewish communities were able to undertake only limited rescue actions. Moreover, even such actions as were undertaken elicited considerable differences of opinion among Jewish leaders and communal activists. This essay elucidates some of the options for action that were available to diaspora Jews in the 1930s, seeking to place the failure to rescue German (and later, European) Jewry
into its proper historical and analytical context.
