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Title

For the love of Israel and the Jewish people : essays and studies on Israel, Jews and Judaism / Nathan Lopes Cardozo.

Author

Lopes Cardozo, Nathan T.

Publication

Jerusalem : Urim Publications, 2008.

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Description

327 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The Land of Israel and the Jewish people are bound together in mysterious ways that go beyond convention. Here is a nation that has "too much history and too little geography," as Sir Isaiah Berlin said. Yet even in their exile, the Jews never truly left the land of their birth. Rather, they lifted it from its native soil and transformed it into a portable homeland, taking it with them to all corners of the earth. Only in 1948 after nearly two thousand years did the Jewish people return to its original home. How is it that contrary to all the laws of history, the Jewish people outlived so many powerful empires? How was this tiny nation able to make an unprecedented contribution to the wellbeing of all of humankind? Why did the Jewish people become a source of endless irritation to those who opposed its ethical teachings? Finally, how can the State of Israel rediscover its Jewish identity as the source of its greatest blessing and hope? Nathan Lopes Cardozo addresses these and other questions throughout this collection of essays. --From publisher's description.

Subject

• Israel
• Israel > Civilization
• Jews > History > 20th century
• Jews > Identity
• Judaism > History > 20th century
• National characteristics, Israeli
• Zionism and Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• To merit Israel is to marry the land -- To marry, to buy and the future of Israel -- The faith of the pained -- The pain of lacking pain : commentary on a eulogy in Israel -- An angel called Chaya Hodaya Schijveschuurder -- A call to fast and pray : Gush Katif and the tsunami -- What will you tell your children? : an open letter to my friends and students abroad -- The permanent preciousness of the secular Jew -- An oath of loyalty -- Proud to be a Jew -- "Not yet" : Jews by choice -- Ilan Ramon z''l : a Jewish astronaut -- What is a gavra rabba--a great man? -- Leadership and captainship -- Jewish Nobel-ness -- Israel's predicament and the need to be a stranger -- Israel's uniqueness and its future -- Kreplach and Bissli : revelation of a language -- The failure of the religious parties : rabbis with a knife between their teeth -- The danger of holiness and the future of Israel -- It is time to go to the synagogue : the faith of a heretic --^
• Finding one's neshama : Franz Rosenzweig and the Berliner Stiebl -- The situation in Israel : a personal letter -- The state of Jewish education today -- The day after disengagement, or what to do -- The future of the state of Israel : a reminder in difficult times -- God, Gush Katif and New Orleans -- The tragedy of Amona -- Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai and A.B. Yehoshua -- A phenomenon called Israel : reflections on a war -- The future of Israel and the Zionist enterprise : a different look -- Israel is Gush Katif : the Palestinian claim to Israel -- Camp David and the city of David -- Prayer for the Jewish soldier -- Efron and Arafat : two of a kind -- Killing -- Hating war against the enemy and PR -- The world and the Middle East -- Prayers for the wicked -- Toward a solution -- Israel and the nations : reflections on a war -- Europe and anti-Semitism -- Why they hate us in the Hague -- The birth of Amalek and the making of an enemy --^
• Rembrandt, the Holocaust and the quest for authenticity -- Boycotting Israel, suicide and the trauma of an anti-Semite -- The splitting of the Red Sea and the miracle of the state of Israel -- There is no Mashiach without a song -- The mystery of the second day of Yom Tov : another look at an old problem -- Hanukkah, divine emanations and the future of the state of Israel -- Purim and the war with Iraq -- The tsunami, vulnerability, religious Jewry and the sanctification of God's name -- On the Israeli-Arab conflict : a biblical perspective -- Hearing and seeing the future of Israel -- Jean Paul Sartre, anti-Semitism and Jewish identity -- Counting Jews : mortal danger and Jewish eternity -- Jewish tradition and the Intifada -- For God's sake, whose land are we occupying?

ISBN

9657108853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library