Research Catalog

Title

War and peace in the Jewish tradition / edited by Lawrence Schiffman, Joel B. Wolowelsky ; Robert S. Hirt, series editor.

Author

Orthodox Forum (16th : 2004 : New York, N.Y.)

Publication

New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshivah University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Schiffman, Lawrence H.
• Wolowelsky, Joel B.
• Hirt, Robert S.

Description

xxxviii, 552 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"With focus centered on the United States' involvement in Iraq and Israel's ongoing war with terrorism, the sixteenth annual meeting of the Orthodox Forum in March 2004 took up the question of War, Peace, and the Jewish Tradition, the papers of which are published here."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Orthodox forum series

Subject

• War > Judaism
• War (Jewish law)
• Just war doctrine
• Peace > Judaism
• Reconciliation > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Just wars, just battles and just conduct in jewish law / Michael J. Broyde -- Philosophical perspectives on just war / Herb Leventer -- From a chessboard to the matrix / Yosefi M. Seltzer -- What is the bleeting of sheep in my ears" / Moshe Sokolow -- Origin of nations and the shadow of violence / Shalom Carmy -- Amalek and the seven nations / Norman Lamm -- International law and halakhah / Jeremy Wieder -- International law, Israel, and the use of force / Michla Pomerance -- "Dilemmas of military service in Israel / Stuart A. Cohen -- Attitudes towards the use of military force in ideological currents of religious zionism / Elie Holzier -- Military serivce / Judith Bleich -- War in jewish apocalyptic thought / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Models of reconciliation and coexistence in jewish sources / Dov S. Zakheim.

ISBN

0881259454

LCCN

^^2006038084

OCLC

76792033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library