264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center of history, because Jews can never take the right to live as a natural right. The volume comprises celebrations and attacks. Edward Alexander celebrates writers like Abba Kovner, Cynthia Ozick, Ruth Wisse, and Hillel Halkin, who recognized in the... Read more
Introduction; I: The Victorian Background; Dr Arnold, Matthew Arnold, and John Stuart Mill; II: History; Britannia Waives the Rules: Antisemitism, English-Style; British Philosemitism: A Thing of the Past?; Medieval Zionism: Yehuda Halevi; Hitler’s American Professors; Hitler’s (Palestinian) Arabs; Beethoven and the Holocaust in Hungary; Israel’s “Original Sin”: The Refugees of 1948; “If I Am Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” The History of Commentary Magazine; End of the Holocaust?; III: Politics; Survival Precedes Definition: Ruth Wisse’s Moral Imperative; “Pharaoh Who Knew Not Joseph”: Obama Demotes the Jews; The Meaning of Criticism; Professors for Suicide Bombing: The Explosive Power of Boredom; Back to 1933: How the Academic Boycott of Israel Began; Afrocentrism, Liberal Dogmatism, and Antisemitism at Wellesley College; Tom Paulin: Poetaster of Murder; Jewish Israel-Haters Convert Their Dead Grandmothers: A New Mormonism?; The Antisemitism of Liberals: A Gentile’s View; IV: Literature; Lionel Trilling: The ( Jewish) Road Not Taken; Metaphor and Memory in Cynthia Ozick: Pro and Con; Foreign Bodies: Americans Abroad in Post-Holocaust Europe; Saul Bellow’s Jewish Letters; Lublin Before It Became Majdanek: Jacob Glatstein’s Autobiography; Abba Kovner: Partisan, Poet, Curator, Avenger; Ashamed Jews: The Finkler Question; Daniel Deronda: “The Zionist Fate in English Hands” and “The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews”
Biography
Edward Alexander
