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We Jews : who are we and what should we do?
- Title
- We Jews : who are we and what should we do? / Adin Steinsaltz ; translated by Yehuda Hanegbi and Rebecca Toueg.
- Author
- Steinsaltz, Adin.
- Publication
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
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- Description
- xix, 204 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "An Arthur Kurzweil book."
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Are we actors with masks? : our ability to assimilate has been too effective for our own good -- Are we shattered into pieces? : despite what anti-semites have said, our infighting and historical circumstances have never allowed unity nor a unified leadership -- Are we a nation or a religion? : our people are not a religion, nor a nation, nor an ethnic group, nor a race -- Do we have our own set of character traits? : yes, but sometimes we use them and sometimes we abuse them -- Is money our god? : the slander, lies, and misunderstandings regarding Jews and money -- Why do we want to save the world? : exploring the Jewish messiah complex -- Are we excessively warm or excessively cold? : the seemingly contradictory phenomena of Jewish emotionalism and intellectualism -- Why are our people involved in idolatry? : our theocentric nature and our temptation to create and worship idols -- What is our role in the world? : our "chosen" status is a demanding responsibility to be the priests of the world -- How does our Jewishness influence our thinking process? : Marx, Freud, Einstein, and the Jewish search for unifying principles -- How does anti-semitism affect other people? : the correlation between a country's health and how well it treats its Jews -- What will become of the Jewish people?.
- Call Number
- *PYC 06-35
- ISBN
- 0787979155 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004026724
- OCLC
- 57124175
- Author
- Steinsaltz, Adin.
- Title
- We Jews : who are we and what should we do? / Adin Steinsaltz ; translated by Yehuda Hanegbi and Rebecca Toueg.
- Imprint
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Research Call Number
- *PYC 06-35