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Jewish cultural aspirations : an introduction /Ruth Weisberg --We are living in a golden age of Jewish American art and we really don't know it /Matthew Baigell --Contemporary Jewish art : an assessment /Richard McBee --The impact and vitality of new Jewish art /Marcie Kaufman --Modern architecture and the Jewish problem : "Jewish architecture" reconsidered /David E. Kaufman --Jewish revenge fantasies in contemporary film /Daniel H. Magilow --Temporal shifts in multi-image panoramas of Israel : a personal reflection /Bill Aron.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Abbreviations --Introduction: The "Jewish Issue" and the East- Central European Communist Systems --I Communist Policies and the Jewish State. Introduction --II The Eichmann Affair. Introduction --III The Six-Day War and its Aftermath. Introduction --IV The International Jewish Organisations, the Jewish Community and the State. Introduction --V Mechanisms of Repression and the Jews. Introduction --Biographical Notes --Bibliography --Index of Persons.

In his second play, H.C. Kim explores the themes of love and sorrow. Mohammed is an Arab in love with Iris, a Jewish soldier of 18 years defending the state of Israel. The central idea is the power of love. Often, social circumstances add sorrow to love. How will Mohammed's social environment impact him and his love?

Afro-Brazilian Jewish women struggle against racism, sexism and classism within their Jewish communities, but they continue to practice Judaism and raise their children Jewish. They affirm their identities as both Black and Jewish in the face of rejection from white Jewish communities as well as their Afro-Brazilian communities. Because Brazil has consistently made efforts to make Jews into symbols of otherness and at the same time rhetorically valued the mulato identity as a symbol of brasilidade ("Brazilianness"), Jews are seen as foreign parasites, light-skinned Blacks are symbols of authentic Brazilian identity, dark-skinned Blacks are invisible, and Jews and Blacks are irreparably separated from each other. In addition the rhetorical valuation of the "mulata" and the devaluation of the Jew, places the Black Jewish women I interviewed (who are lighter-skinned black women) in between what is symbolically valued and devalued in Brazil, literally in the border between "us" and "them." The Brazilian state appropriates and utilizes beneficial aspects of racial others to advertise its modernity, while oppressing the unwanted parts. The Brazilian state portrayed Jews as "economically desirable," but "politically inexpedient," (Lesser, 2005, p. 36). "Mulata" women are sexually valorized and considered erotic, but only through commodification and objectification (Lilly, 2007, p. 61). The Brazilian state claims acceptance based on its appropriation and utilization of the Jewish or Black culture, but continues to enact racism and anti-Semitism (Barcelos, 1999, Barroso, 1999; Berdichevski, 2001; Lesser, 1995, 2005; Lilly, 2007; Reichmann, 1995).

For all the controversy about Israel's status as a 'Jewish state', the country's own legal framework establishing it as such is surprisingly tenuous. Israel has no constitution that defines its national goals and values. Its collection of 11 Basic Laws, which were intended as a blueprint for an eventual constitution, contains no definition of Israel as a Jewish state. That Israel has prospered for almost 65 years without a law declaring it a Jewish state is, a testament to the force of its founding idea. Israelis a Jewish state because Jews believe it and Israelis live it. The country's history shows that Jewish nationalism made flesh can be more transcendently powerful than any legislative declaration. But today, the absence of a legal architecture ensuring Jewish statehood is also a potential threat to the Zionist project itself. The creation of a Basic Law proclaiming Israel a democratic Jewish state would prevent courts from making decisions that erode Israel's Jewish nature in the name of preserving its democratic one. Adapted from the source document.

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