Research Catalog

Title

Jewish studies in violence : a collection of essays / edited by Roberta Rosenberg Farber, Simcha Fishbane.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Farber, Roberta Rosenberg, 1944-
• Fishbane, Simcha

Description

xi, 247 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Judaism

Uniform Title

Studies in Judaism

Subject

• Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
• 1914-2001
• Violence > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Marital violence > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Antisemitism > Great Britain > History
• Antisemitism
• Jews > Violence against
• Domestic relations (Jewish law)
• Jews > Québec (Province) > Montréal
• World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain
• World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Jewish
• Justice, Administration of (Jewish law)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Religious Zionists

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- 1. The transformation of violent experiences : a psychological perspective / Don J. Brand -- 2. Jewish religious communities and wife abuse / Roberta Rosenberg Farber -- 3. The treatment of violence and extra-judicial exercise of law and justice in Jewish law / Chaim Povarsky -- 4. Jewish violence in antiquity / Meir Bar-Ilan -- 5. Legitimate violence in formative Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- 6. "Mercy is vouchsafed from Heaven" : Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim, sections 560 and 577-8 / Simcha Fishbane -- 7. Violence as a factor in the communal life of the Montreal Jewish community in the early twentieth century / Ira Robinson -- 8. Anglo-Jewry and military conscription during the Great War / Geoffrey Alderman -- 9. Novel anti-semitisms : vampiric reflections of the Jew in Britain, 1875-1914 / Sara Libby Robinson -- 10. The personification of excess : antisemitism and the wages of alienation / Mark P. Worell -- 11. Ploughshare into swords : contemporary religious Zionists and moral constraints / Yitzchak Blau -- 12, "From the depths I have called to you" : Jewish reflections on September 11th and contemporary terrorism / David Shatz -- 13. Is there a "Halakhic" response to the problem of evil? / Moshe Sokol.

ISBN

• 9780761836070
• 0761836071

OCLC

• 82958778
• SCSB-11959251

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library