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הערות על כתיבה סובייקטיבית -- בלימת ההתגיירות היהודית -- 'עם גזע' גולה או קהילות דת? -- תחילת אירופה היודו-נוצרית -- זרים בהומניזם - מארסמוס לוולטר -- מהפכה, אמנציפציה ולאומיות -- היהודים בין קפיטליזם לסוציאליזם -- הגזעה, דמוקרטיזציה והגירה -- פרשת דרייפוס והולדת הציונות -- השמדת 'עם-הגזע' היהודי -- תקומת 'עם-הגזע' היהודי? -- מיהו יהודי? מטביעת אצבעות לדנ"א -- מלחמת 1967 - 'זכות אבות' -- האם היודופוביה המסורתית נסוגה? -- אנטי-ציונות: 'אנטישמיות' חדשה? ‬

The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the 'other' (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 contributions describe conceptions and contingencies of the other from very different perspectives, so arriving - with reference to Islam - at insights into the complex problems of the 'other.' The studies are dedicated to Professor Gernot Rotter. Lawrence Conrad, Universität Hamburg;Ulrich Rebstock und Benjamin Jokisch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Introduction: The poet, his works & literary analysis of the JP composition -- 1. The JP poet in the context of history -- 2. Compositions -- 3. The Buddha biographies and their transmission -- 4. The Hebrew rendition and Its connection to the JP composition -- 5. Other literary precedents -- 6. Genre -- 7. Major themes and motifs -- 8. Structure -- 9. Language -- 10. Manuscripts.

The philosophy of Levinas has developed over nearly sixty years. Its evolution can be subdivided into three main stages: Following the pre-war writings, the period 1945-1961 lead to the book Totalité et Infini, in which the ethical thought of Levinas takes a first accomplished form. During the last stage, whose central opus is Autrement qu'être (Otherwise than Being), his thought both radicalized and opened up to multiple horizons. Indeed, Levinas is not merely an academic philosopher ignorant of other movements of thought that mark his century. This book aims to show how the stages of Levinas's strictly philosophical thought is expressed with regard to politics, Judaism, and Christianity

"Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua, Grossman, Matalon, Castel-Bloom, Govrin, Kravitz, and Levy. Mendelson-Maoz raises critical questions regarding militarism, humanism, the nature of the State of Israel as a democracy, national identity and its borders, soldiers as moral individuals, the nature of Zionist education, the acknowledgment of the Other, and the sovereignty of the subject. She discusses these issues within two frameworks. The first draws on theories of ethics in the humanist tradition and its critical extensions, especially by Levinas. The second applies theories of space, and in particular deterritorialization as put forward by Deleuze and Guattari and their successors. Overall this volume provides an innovative theoretical analysis of the collage of voices and artistic directions in contemporary Israeli prose written in times of political and cultural debate on the occupation and its intifadas."--

This book is the first attempt to review the history and the fall of the Jewish community that existed in Beit She'an from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Arab Revolt in 1936. The story of the community, which has been almost completely forgotten by the public and academic consciousness, is based on an initial study of several public and local archives, as well as a thorough study of dozens of primary and secondary sources of various types: press clippings, academic and autobiographical sources, oral interviews and others. Beside presenting the history of the community itself, which includes the unique challenges it experienced during its fifty years of existence and the organizational and ideological processes which characterized it, the study is also a base for a better assessment and understanding of the several small Jewish communities that existed during this period in a number of Arab cities and towns: Be'er Sheva, Ramle, Nazareth, Samakh, Jericho and others. This is accomplished by comparing the events in Beit She'an to those which took place in other communities, while trying to identify the factors that led to the collapse of these communities during the Mandate period, and to the withdrawal of the Zionist movement from its substantial support to their continued existence. The book also deals with different questions of ethnic and national Jewish identity, the relations between marginal communities and the leading national institutions, and issues relating to Zionist historiography over the past century