The Open University of Israel Catalog 2012

The Open University of Israel
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The Open University of Israel has published over 1500 textbooks in all major disciplines, making the Open University of Israel the country's leading academic publisher. Prominent scholars, historians and experts from Israel's academic institutions and research centers have contributed their knowledge and expertise to this extraordinary collection, known for its outstanding academic quality. This catalog presents the Open University's latest collection of gems and treasures. We are pleased to offer our books on Middle Eastern history, and the region's political, social, cultural and ethnic movements, Jewish religion, Jewish philosophy and political thought, Israeli society and culture and our extraordinary series on genocide studies. Unique in scope and length, our books can easily be adopted as text-books for students, and may also be of interest to scholars and the general public. The Open University of Israel also applies the latest in cutting edge technology and publishes audio and digital books, some in enriched versions with media. The Open University of Israel welcomes collaboration and joint projects with publishers interested in pooling together world knowledge, culture and heritage to produce high-quality publications of broad interest. Contact details: Mrs. Nava Segal Rights Manager navase@openu.ac.il The Open University of Israel 1 University Road, P.O.Box 808, Raanana 43537, Israel Tel. 972-9-7781811, Fax 972-9-7780664 http://www-e.openu.ac.il/
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Jewish Studies and Thought 7 Gateway to Rabbinic Literature 8 Gender and Sexuality in Rabinnic Culture 9 Jewish Identities in an Era of Multiple Modernities 10 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: From Rabbi Saadiah Gaon to Maimonides 11 Jews and Christians in Western Europe 12 Secularization in Modern Jewish Culture 13 Selected Topics in Jewish Law 14 Slavery in the Ancient World 15 Studies in the Book of Genesis 16 The History of the People of Israel during the First Temple Period 17 The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church 18 The Rise of the Monarchy in Israel: Studies in the Book of Samuel 19 Wisdoms Little Sister: Medieval Jewish Political Philosophy 20 Middle East and Asian Studies 21 Arab Society in Israel 22 From National Home to a State in the Making: The Jewish Community in Palestine between the World Wars 23 Generations of Rebellion: Students and the University in Modern Middle Eastern History 24 Islam: Introduction to the History of the Religion 25 The Middle East in Our Times Series 26 Egypt: The Older Sister 27 Iraq: Monarchy, Republic, Tyranny 28 Jordan: In Search of an Identity 29 Syria: To Pan-Arabism and Back 30 Lebanon: The Challenge of Diversity 31 The Palestinians: A People Dispersed 32 Saudi Arabia: An Oil Kingdom in a Labyrinth of Religion and Politics 33 Turkey: Nationalism and its Counter Dimensions 34 Iran: From Persian Monarchy to Islamic Revolution 35
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All under Heaven: Imperial China 36 Twentieth Century Political Demography in the Arab World 37 Israeli Communication, Culture and Arts 38 Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua: Early Writings 39 Freedom of the Journalist and Freedom of the Press in Israel: Media Law and Ethics 40 Lo and Behold: Visual Aspects of Zionist Ideas in Israeli Culture 41 Mass Communication in Israel 42 The Ethnic Problem in Israeli Theatre 43 Cinema 44 Holocaust Survivors, Outsiders and Others in Israeli Cinema and Literature 45 Israeli Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium 46 Landscape in the Mist: Space and Memory in Palestinian Cinema 47 Memory, Trauma and Fantasy in American Cinema 48 Human Rights 49 Human Rights in International Relations 50 The Genocide Series 51 Reflections on the Inconceivable: Theoretical Aspects in Genocide Studies 52 Between Racism and Genocide in the Modern Era 53 Genocide in the Land of the Free: The Indians of North America, 1776-1890 54 Conflictual Encounter: The Destruction of the Indian Peoples of Spanish America 55 The Armenian Genocide: Forgetting and Denial 56 Hurban: The Annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany 57 Nazi Germany and the Gypsies 58 Rwanda 1994: Genocide in the Land of a Thousand Hills 59 Tibet 1950-2000: Destroying a Civilization 60 Political and Ethnic Cleansing in the Soviet Union, 1918-1953 61 And You Shall Destroy the Evil inside of You: We are the Human Beings who Commit Holocaust and Genocide 62 So that I wouldnt be among the Silent 63 The Pain of Knowledge: Reflections on Holocaust and Genocide Issues in Education in Israel and Elsewhere 64
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Mira Balberg*
Gateway to Rabbinic Literature provides a thorough yet accessible introduction to the vast and rich corpus of rabbinic literature namely, the Mishnah, the two Talmuds, and the halakhic and aggadic Midrashim. The purpose of this book is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of critical terms, concepts, questions, and challenges that are prominent in the study of rabbinic literature, as well as to facilitate the readers initial access to the primary texts themselves. The book has three parts. The first part, From Oral Torah to Written Torah introduces the reader to the notion of oral Torah and to its emergence in the world of Jewish antiquity. This part grapples with the key questions in the background of rabbinic literature, and helps the reader situate rabbinic literature historically and culturally, as well as to understand the range of topics and endeavors with which this literature is concerned and the methods of study that inform it. The second and third parts are dedicated to tannaitic literature and to amoraic literature, and provide comprehensive expositions of the major rabbinic corpora. These expositions systematically cover a wide range of topics from the structure and division of each of the compilations, through its unique style and rhetoric, to the history of its formation and redaction. The books orientation is highly textual and historical, and places emphasis on critical scholarship of rabbinic literature as a key tool for understanding the rich and multifaceted nature of this fascinating corpus. The books accessible presentation and scrupulous academic accountability make it especially appropriate for scholars in various fields who wish to acquire preliminary acquaintance with rabbinic literature. Forthcoming
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* Mira Balberg, assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, specializes in ancient Judaism with a focus on early rabbinic literature. Her main areas of interest include questions of personhood in rabbinic literature, changing cultural meanings of biblical institutions in ancient Jewish texts, and the production of rabbinic knowledge.
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Ophir Mnz-Manor*
Rabbinic culture, as we know it from late antique texts, was androcentric and patriarchal. Much like any other human culture in the ancient world, men stood at the center of the rabbinic movement while women were secluded from the political and religious realms. This book focuses on such issues and explores the ways in which the learned male elite sought to control society by means of cultural and textual mechanisms and practices. One of the major realms in which gender differentiations are most noticeable is sex; therefore, the book elaborates on themes such as permitted and forbidden sexual activities, the everyday life of the married couple, adultery and appearance in the public space, such as the marketplace. For the most part, the book offers detailed readings of texts from the diverse rabbinic canon (such as the Mishna and the Talmud) alongside theoretically informed analyses thereof. Special emphasis is given to developments over time and differences between the rabbinic centers in Palestine and Babylonia. This book not only contributes to our understanding of Jewish culture in one of the most important stages of its development but also of current trends in the modern Jewish world, as rabbinic texts of late antiquity remain an authoritative voice in legal discussions of many practicing Jews. Table of Contents: Gender, Sex and Rabbinic Literature Theoretical and Methodological Approaches The Construction of the Male and Female Bodies Sex and Desire Non-Normative Sexual Practices Space, Gender and the Public Sphere The Laws of Menstrual Purity Gender and the Construction of Family Life Men, Women and the Study of Torah The Sotah Ritual Adultery between Practice and Fantasy Forthcoming
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* Ophir Mnz-Manor is a senior lecturer of rabbinic culture in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. Mnz-Manor has published extensively on late antique Jewish and Christian liturgy and hymnography. His two most recent works are Ancient Piyyut: An Annotated Anthology and The Liturgical Poetry of Elazar Birabi Qilir for Hanukkah: A Critical Edition, both forthcoming in 2013.
Ben Azzai says: Anyone who does not engage in procreation is a murderer and diminishes the Divine image. Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said to him: Ben Azzai, words are fine when accompanied by practice. There are those who interpret well and behave well, and those who behave well but do not interpret well. You interpret well, but do not behave well. Ben Azzai said to him: What shall I do? My soul desires Torah. Let the world continue by the efforts of others.
(Tosefta, Yevamot 8:7)
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Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Lior Ben-Chaim*

Who can be defined as a Jew? This is a question that has been asked throughout the ages, continues to be asked, and never ceases to spark conflict. Is there a difference in how secular Jews from Argentina define themselves in comparison to their peers in France? What is the underlying meaning of the Hebrew word for Diaspora and Immigrant? And does that impact on how other Jews regard Israeli Jews and themselves? What does it mean to have been identified as a Jew from the former Soviet Union? How does American Jewry define and distinguish itself? What defines an Israeli Jew? Jewish Identities in an Era of Multiple Modernities examines the evolution of the collective identity of the Jewish people and the manner in which it expresses itself from country to country, and community to community. The differences and similarities among Jews around the world, and in Israel, are explored and examined, focusing sociologically on todays multiple modernities and multiple cultures. 2006, 376 pp.
Is it possible to still talk about Jews as a single entity considering their multiple Jewish identities?
* Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published on ethnicity and language in Israel, the transformation of the kibbutz, Jewish identities and aspects of contemporary globalization. He is co-author of Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation (Brill, 2010). * Lior Ben-Chaim, a sociologist at Tel-Aviv University, studies various aspects of Jewish identities and multiple modernities in Israel.
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Raphael Jospe*
The Middle Ages was a time when Jewish philosophy took shape and flourished. It was a time when the Jewish peoples greatest thinkers, dispersed among the nations, embarked on a journey of discovery, influencing and being influenced by their nonJewish contemporaries and cultures. More than a millennium has passed, yet, the writings of these great thinkers continue to serve as enlightened road maps for the encounters of the Jewish nation with the world around them. These three volumes examine the earliest Jewish philosophers both within the context of their multilingual, Muslim, and Christian environments, and among themselves. Readers will delve into Christian and Islamic philosophy to better understand how Jewish philosophy evolved. Volume 1 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Foundations (2005, 575 pp.) Part 1: What is Jewish philosophy? Part 2: Saadiah Gaon and the Kalam Part 3: Jewish Neo-Platonism: Isaac Israeli and Solomon ibn-Gabirol Part 4: Bahya ibn-Paquda Volume 2 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Transitions (2006, 482 pp.) Part 1: Philosophical exegesis of the Bible: Abraham ibn-Ezra Part 2: Judah ha-Levi and critique of philosophy Part 3: The transition to Aristotelianism: Abraham ibn-Daud
Knowledge has two faces, truth and falsehood, true knowledge is when one knows the thing as it is, square is square, minimal is minimal, black is black, white is white, reality is reality, missing is missing. False knowledge is knowledge of a thing that is not as it is...
Volume 3 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Maimonides (2006, 503 pp.) Part 1: Maimonides: Principles of Judaism Part 2: Guide of the Perplexed God Part 3: Guide of the Perplexed The world and the human being
* Raphael Jospe, a specialist in medieval Jewish philosophy, teaches in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, and also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem International School. He is the author/editor of several books, among them Jewish Philosophy (2 volumes, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Academic, 2009).
Beliefs and Opinions, Rabbi Saadiah Gaon
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Editor: Ora Limor*
What binds Christianity and Judaism? What divides them? How did their interrelationships play out in Western Europe? Are these two beliefs compatible? Since the birth of Christianity some two millennia ago, Jews and Christians have been intertwined in one way or another. At first, the Jews were a majority in Israel, but this lasted but a few decades. With the rapid spread of Christianity and the loss of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, the pendulum swung and the Jews became the minority. Nevertheless, for hundreds of years, the Jews and Christians lived alongside one another interacting in nearly every aspect of their lives. Their respec tive credos, religious beliefs, philosophies, value systems, political, social and cultural necessities drove their encounters in varying directions. This series of five volumes traces the relationship between Jews and Christians in Western Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance a period of 700 years. Esau is the older brother, the evil one... He was deprived of his first born status in order to fulfill the divine plan, for Esau did not deserve to be the chosen one in the eyes of the Lord. In Jewish literature, Esau... represents Christianity. In Christian literature, he represents the Jews.
Volume 1 Jacob and Esau (Ora Limor, 1993, 125 pp.) Volume 2 (1993, 378 pp.) Part 1: Majority and minority (Amnon RazKrakotzkin, Ora Limor) Part 2: Similarity and difference (Ora Limor) Part 3: Jews before the Christian courts of justice: the Jewish oath (Joseph Ziegler) Volume 3 The Jewish-Christian Debate (Ora Limor, 1993, 256 pp.) Volume 4 (1997, 432 pp.) Part 1: Hebraica veritas (Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ora Limor) Part 2: Faith and reason (Joseph Ziegler) Part 3: Images of the past (Ora Limor, Israel Yuval) Volume 5 (1998, 440 pp.) Part 1: The blood libel (Ora Limor) Part 2: The Conversos (Yosef Kaplan) Part 3: Jews and Christians during the reformation (Amos Hofman)
* Ora Limor is Professor Emerita of History at the Open University of Israel. She has written numerous articles in scholarly journals and is co-editor of Contra Iudaeos: Ancient Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism) (J.C.B. Mohr, 1996).
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Editors: Avriel Bar-Levav, Ron Margolin, Shmuel Feiner*
Perhaps one of the most fascinating responses to Jewish society's encounter with the modern world has been that of secularization, which gave birth to new ideas, movements and voices, and literally transformed Jewish identity and Jewish thought. Secularization in Modern Jewish Culture describes and analyzes the historical process of Jewish secularization, as well as the ideological, sociological and literary questions that arose as a result of this process. Written by seven of Israel's leading academicians, it offers a broad range of perspectives and viewpoints. Forthcoming
* Among the authors are Avriel Bar-Levav, head of Judaic Studies at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel; Ron Margolin, fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and teaches modern Jewish thought in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Tel Aviv University; Shmuel Feiner, professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University and Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem.
...a typical Sabbath day in Saloniki... Jews would close their shops, go to synagogue on Friday night and Saturday morning, and afterwards sit in coffee houses and restaurants, smoke, travel, and attend cultural events. Many local Jewish residents would join in on these or the other activities, and could easily be distinguished by their dress those in traditional Shabbat dress vs. those dressed for sipping coffee or attending cultural events...
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Editor: Hanina Ben-Menahem*
What is Jewish Law? It is a modern day moniker for halacha, an ancient system of laws for day-to-day individual and public dealings. This system was developed long before there was any legal or court system in the world. And, over the years it has gained in strength, in spite of the fact that technically, this system of laws could only be adjudicated by the Great Court of Jerusalem, which has not been in existence for two millennia. The laws have their basis in the Talmud and Torah, and have served as a normative system for some 2,000 years, wherever Jews have lived. Jewish law is not only about ritual religious practices. It is also concerned with inter-family relationships, day-to-day business practices, punishment and compensation. Within the framework of the public forum, Jewish law sets guidelines for the establishment of courts, enacting tax laws, defining communal responsibilities and practices, and commercial dealings.
Volume 1 (2006, 784 pp.) Part 1: Legal formalism in Jewish law (Hanina BenMenahem) Part 2: Exigency authority of courts (Hanina BenMenahem) Part 3: Law and equity in Jewish law (Hanina BenMenahem) Part 4: Legal controversy in Jewish law (Hanina Ben-Menahem) Part 5: Self-help in Jewish law (Shimshon Ettinger) Volume 2 (2006, 454 pp.) Part 1: Market overt (Uri Shtruzman) Part 2: Unjust enrichment (Itamar Warhaftig) Part 3: Abortion (Daniel Sinclair) Part 4: Euthanasia treating the critically ill (Daniel Sinclair)
A Sanhedrin (Jewish court comprised of 70 wise men) which imposed the death sentence on even one individual once in 7 years was called a death-dealing Sanhedrin.
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In this two volume series, the authors present an indepth analysis of the laws and trace their evolution from ancient times to the modern day.
* Hanina Ben-Menahem, professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a scholar of Jewish law and legal theory. He is author of Controversy and Dialogue in Halakhic Sources (The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University School of Law, 1991) and Judicial Deviation in Talmudic Law: Governed by Men, Not by Rules (Haywood Academic Publishers, 1991).
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David Rokeah*
Slavery in the Ancient World is divided into two sections. The first covers the phenomenon of slavery in ancient times among different peoples and cultures. There is an in-depth discussion of characteristics of slavery in Biblical times, the Second Temple period, and the period of the Sages, as well as in ancient Greece in the Hellenistic period, in Rome at the time of the Republic, and from the Caesars until Christianity was introduced in the 4th century AD. The second section of the book includes hundreds of texts from ancient Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman sources that deal with ancient slavery (originally in Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Hebrew), accompanied by the author's commentaries. 2012, 296 pp. The Greek pagans and in particular the Romans, provided their slaves with a certain degree of protection and recognition as human creations. In cases of extreme abuse, certain religious houses served as temporary places of refuge for slaves.
* David Rokeah is Professor Emeritus of History of the Jewish People at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an expert on slavery in the ancient world and on relationships among pagans, Jews and Christians
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Shamai Gelander*
What is The Book of Genesis? What is its purpose? A scientific description of the stages of the worlds creation? A guidebook for ancient customs? An interesting tale? The Book of Genesis is unique among the five books of the Torah. Genesis, according to Dr. Shamai Gelander, is not written as a history book or a guide to ancient customs. It is also not a scientific description of the creation of the world, nor of the beginnings of mankind or the Jewish forefathers. The different topics covered in the Book of Genesis, written in a unique literary format, are primarily designed to offer a system of values for future generations as Genesis describes monotheisms confrontation with the ancient world. Studies in the Book of Genesis offers a new, original, holistic, systematic framework to help readers extract the beauty of this literary work by using accepted scientific research tools. And Gd said to Cain, where is Abel your brother, and he answered I dont know, am I my brothers keeper, and Gd answered, what have you done, the blood of your brother cries out to me from the ground.
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Volume 1 (2009, 419 pp.) Part 1: The book of Genesis structure, content and composition Part 2: Biblical and ancient Near Eastern creation stories Part 3: Creation stories in Genesis Part 4: Genealogies and the tables of nations Part 5: Literary analysis of the history of nations and the history of Israel Part 6: The patriarchs and historical reality Volume 2 (2009, 492 pp.) Part 1: The faith of the patriarchs Part 2: The Abraham cycle Part 3: The Isaac cycle Part 4: The Jacob cycle Part 5: The Joseph novella Part 6: The art of storytelling in Genesis
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* Shamai Gelander of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa is author of The Good Creator: Literature and Theology in Genesis 1-11 (Scholars Press, 1997).
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Editor: Bustenay Oded*

This series of four volumes covers the First Temple period, a half millennium, dating from the 11th through the 6th century BCE. A time of kings and prophets. A time when the nation of Israel, surrounded by the great Eastern empires of Babylonia, Egypt and Assyria, found its political, ethnographic, economic, social and cultural voice for the first time. Yet, throughout the centuries, there have been those who claim that this is not true. King Solomon and King David: were they real or mythological personae? Was there, in fact, a powerful, united Israelite Kingdom that stretched from Egypt to Lebanon? These and many other questions are examined through the lens of a wide breadth of modern-day archaeological and research sources, and Jewish texts. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the ancient Middle East, and learn about the cultural and social mores of the surrounding countries and how they impacted on the Jewish nation.
* Bustenay Oded, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, is a scholar of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. He is the author of War, Peace and Empire: Justifications for War in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (Reichert Verlag, 1991).
Volume 1 (Bustenay Oded, 2006, 519 pp.) Part 1: From judges to monarchy Part 2: The era of Saul and David Part 3: The kingdom of Solomon Volume 2 (Bustenay Oded, 2007, 516 pp.) Part 1: The burden of monarchy Part 2: The House of Omri and the House of Jehu Part 3: The fall of the kingdom of Israel Volume 3 (2012, 496 pp.) Part 1: The prophets of the First Temple and their calling (Zeev Weisman, Eli Baruch) Part 2: Society and economy in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah (Hanoch Raviv, Michael Kochman, Gershon Galil, Hayah Katz) Part 3: Daily life during the period of the monarchy (Avraham Faust) Volume 4 (Bustenay Oded, 2008, 509 pp.) Part 1: Judah and Assyria Part 2: Josiah and his times Part 3: The end of the kingdom of Judah
I have built a house of luxury for you, a place to house your glory for ever
Kings I, 7:13
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Ram Ben-Shalom*
The Jews of Provence is not so much a story of survival, as a fiery, independent spirit whose influence on Jewish traditions and customs was felt, and is still felt, throughout the generations. This book is the first comprehensive study to tell the fascinating story of the Medieval Jews in Southern France. According to Jewish tradition, the beginnings of settlement in Provincia [Provence] began with the arrival of the exiles from Jerusalem in Arles, following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans. These Jews settled in a vast territory between the Alps and the Pyrenees and lived under various types of governors and rulers until eventually the French Crown annexed the region in the late 15th century. Yet, in spite of the various rulers, or perhaps because of them, the Jews of Provence viewed themselves as a single unit, somewhat separate from the neighboring Jews of France, Spain and Italy, and united by a unique history, religious traditions and customs, language, and strong social and educational values. fluctuating relationship with the Church, the French Crown and Christian society: from a close economic relationship and common intellectual activities, to violence, martyrdom, exile, and forced conversion. Yet, in the shadow of a growing, powerful Church, the Jewish community produced some of Jewish historys extraordinary Rabbinic sages and intelligentsia. Influential Jewish families played a crucial role in establishing the cultural renaissance of Provencal Jewry, translating a vast library of Jewish and Arabic works from Arabic into Hebrew. This unique and important process stimulated a social-intellectual controversy over the philosophical studies and the writings of Maimonides, a debate, which spread eventually to the entire Jewish Diaspora, while attracting the interest of Church inquisitors. These developments were also connected to the rising of the Kabbalah in Provence the first historical appearance of this mystical and esoteric trend. Forthcoming
* Ram Ben-Shalom is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel and at the Hebrew University. He is the author of Medieval Jews and the Christian Past: Jewish Historical Consciousness in Spain and Southern France (Forthcoming, Littman Library Oxford 2013).
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Moshe Garsiel*
The two books of Samuel describe in great detail the rise of the first monarchy in Israel, which helped shape the twelve tribes of Israel into a single, united nation. Sauls monarchy, like Davids, was plagued with internal and external problems, and Prof. Moshe Garsiel examines each of these monarchies through a multi-focal lens. The Rise of the Monarchy in Israel: Studies in the Book of Samuel, a four volume series, provides a comprehensive study of Samuel I and II using actual Jewish texts, other historical sources, archaeological finds and extensive geographical data. This series integrates historical and literary analysis, distilling the best from both disciplines and providing the reader with an in-depth perspective of one of the most colorful times in the life of the Jewish nation. Volume 1 (2008, 284 pp.) Part 1: Introduction to the Book of Samuel Part 2: The end of the period of the Judges Eli and Samuel Part 3: The foundation of the monarchy Volume 2 (2008, 404 pp.) Part 1: Sauls wars against the Philistines and Amalek Part 2: The rise of David at Sauls court Part 3: The decline of Sauls kingdom Volume 3 (2008, 300 pp.) Part1: The ascension of David to kingship Part 2: Davids army and his battles Part 3: The development of Davids kingdom and its organization When Samuel saw Saul, Gd said to him: Here is the man I told you about. He will rule over my people. Volume 4 (2008, 352 pp.) Part 1: Crime and punishment The story of David and Bathsheba Part 2: Revolts and discord in the latter days of Davids reign Part 3: The ascension of Solomon to kingship
Samuel I, 9:17
* Moshe Garsiel is Professor Emeritus of Bible in the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has written numerous studies on the use of vocabulary items in biblical narratives, including Biblical Names: A Literary Study of Midrashic Derivations and Puns (Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991).
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Abraham Melamed*
Jewish political philosophy during the Middle Ages: an intellectual encounter or a political-religious conflict? Jewish political thought during the Middle Ages was the result of a tense engagement between traditional Jewish political thought based on the tenets of the Bible and the writings of the sages, and Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism as mediated through the lens of Islamic philosophers such as ibn Sina, ibn Rushd, ibn al Haytham and others. Medieval Jewish political philosophy had to contend with Greek political philosophy as interpreted by Islamists in a number of ways. In this book, Prof. Abraham Melamed examines not only the myriad of elements that resulted in this encounter, but also vexatious and complex issues and topics that Jewish political philosophers had to controvert. What is the political nature of man and the real purpose of the nation-state? Is prophecy a political phenomenon? What is the role of a 'god-figure' in the nation-state? Are the laws of the state to be derived from divine laws? nature's laws? human-motivated laws? What is the role of the monarchy vis--vis the republic? Is Messianism a political phenomenon? Prof. Melamed follows the evolution of Jewish political thought from the medieval era until the arrival of Spinoza. He leads the reader on a fascinating journey of intellectual challenges that provided the underpinning for much of Jewish political thought in modern times. 2011, 368 pp.
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* Abraham Melamed is author of books on Jewish political thought and director of the Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought and Heritage at the University of Haifa.
The distinction between enlightened and renowned was applied by Rambam in order to clarify the essential difference, in his opinion, between value-based laws that guide societys behavior, in which man distinguishes between good and bad, and those logic-scientific based laws, in which he distinguishes between truth and untruths... Rambam distinguishes between two types of laws: divine law and humanitys law.
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Editors: Ilana Kaufman, Mustafa Kabha*
Since the establishment of the State of Israel, there has been an ongoing struggle between the Jewish society and Arab society living together, ostensibly under one roof. This struggle ideological, political, territorial and societal finds expression in nearly every aspect of Arab-Israeli life, and like Arab-Israeli society itself, has undergone change over time. Arab society has not lived in isolation, but rather has been impacted by its neighboring Jewish society, as well as by other Arab states, globalization, and its own internal issues and changes.
Volume 1 (forthcoming) Part 1: The Arab-Palestinian community as a national minority in Israel (Ilana Kaufman) Part 2: The Arab-Palestinian community during the British Mandate (Mustafa Kabha) Part 3: In the shadow of military rule: The first twenty years (Sara Ozacky-Lazar, Yair Baumel) Volume 2 (2011, 382 pp.) Part 1: The ethnic mosaic (Ilana Kaufman) Part 2: The Palestinian family in Israel (Khawla AbuBaker) Part 3: Gender and relations between the sexes in Palestinian society (Amalia Saar) Volume 3 (2010, 415 pp.) Part 1: One man one vote: Parties and elections (Benyamin Neuberger) Part 2: Leadership: Transformation and transition (Reuven Aharoni) Part 3: The media: From printed to online press (Mustafa Kabha)
A multidisciplinary team of scholars worked together to produce this detailed, well-documented four volume series. The series tracks the multifaceted aspects of Arab society in Israel, viewing its evolution, development and struggles by I vote, therefore I am. Volume 4 (forthcoming) Slogan used by Communist youth in examining a wide range of issues: family and Haifa during 2009 election campaign Part 1: The Arab-Palestinian education system gender relations, becoming a minority after being a (Ismael Abu Saad) majority, ethnicity, legal claims, etc. Gaining a deeper Part 2: Territorial relations: Demographic aspects historical understanding of the evolution of Israeliand social change (Rassem Khamaisy) Arab society, may provide new insight for political * Ilana Kaufman is a scholar of Arab-Palestinians, civil society and political participation in Israel at the Open resolutions to the ongoing conflict.
University and author of Arab National Communism in the Jewish State (University Press of Florida, 1997).
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* Mustafa Kabha is head of the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel and a researcher in the areas of modern Middle Eastern history, the history of the Palestinian national movement, and Arab mass media. He is the author of numerous books and articles in Arabic, English and Hebrew.
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Aviva Halamish*
Many have referred to Israel as a modern-day miracle. At the outbreak of World War I, there were 60,000 Jews living in the Jewish Yishuv. They were a heterogeneous group, most living in dire circumstances in various communities throughout the land. The land was desolate and ruled by a dying, largely ambivalent empire. There were no national institutions, and virtually no political or national leadership. Then, within a period of two decades, now under the rule of a new, sometimes antagonistic empire, the population grew by nine-fold, national institutions were established and a political-national leadership arose. At the center of this three volume series, Prof. Halamish offers an in-depth examination of how a tiny group of people, an almost invisible minority, laid the foundations for the establishment of a State, with few resources and little international support. The series examines not only what happened within the confines of the Jewish Yishuv, but also the influences from outside, which played a crucial role in the State in the making. In the 1920s, aliyah and settlement increased the demographic weight and the territorial presence of the Yishuv (i.e. Jewish), but this change was in numbers rather than in substance... [This was a time] when the foundations of the national home were laid.
Volume 1 (2004, 360 pages) Part 1: Historiography and historical background Part 2: The Palestine triangle in the 1920s: British, Jews and Arabs, 1917-1929 Part 3: A volunteer society: Institutions, political parties and organizations Part 4: Foundations of the national home: Immigration, economy and settlement in the 1920s Volume 2 (2004, 274 pages) Part 1: Consensus and conflict in the 1920s Part 2: From crisis to growth: 1929-1932 Part 3: The Palestine triangle in the 1930s: British, Jews and Arabs, 1931-1939 Volume 3 (2012, 408 pp.) Part 1: Creating a critical mass: Immigration and settlement during the 1930s Part 2: Consensus and conflict in the 1930s Part 3: A race against time: The Yishuv on the eve of World War II
* Aviva Halamish is professor of History at the Open University of Israel. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, among them The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine (Syracuse University Press and Vallentine Mitchell, 1998) and recipient of the prestigious 2010 Yitzhak Ben Zvi Award for historical research.
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Haggai Erlich*
In Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and among the Palestinian people, youth have brought about rapid and significant changes. What changes will they wield in the Generation of 2011 or the Arab Spring?
In this book, Prof. Haggai Erlich engages in a most timely discussion the history of political engagement on the part of students and the educated young in the Middle East, the Gulf States, Turkey and Iran. The book examines the history of the region based on the concept of political generations characterized by the outpouring of educated youth onto the streets, galvanized and united by revolutionary ideas and concepts. These movements led to political reform and sometimes to regime change and the creation of a new social and political order
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In the beginning of 2011... once again Iran was experiencing internal tension. The events of 2009 proved how deep the chasm was between the government and the younger generation, students and educated youth in urban centers... In Iran, at the beginning of the new decade, there is indeed a historical generation. This time the youth represent more than two-thirds of the population, and we can expect, for the first time in the history of this country, students to lead the change.
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Editor: Daphna Ephrat*

While todays bookshelves may be overflowing with newly published, or reprinted editions of books on Islam, this series of four volumes is one of the only efforts to cover the entire history of Islam from its birth in the 7th century until modern-day fundamentalism. Also, while most other publications may deal with the rise, development and spread of Islam in specific countries, few provide such an extensive and comprehensive look at Islam throughout the world and country to country as does this series. Furthermore, most other publications divide Islam into two distinct periods: classical Islam which developed in the 11th century and modern day Islam which evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries. This publication also places great emphasis on the golden era of Islam in the Middle Ages, when much of Islamic science, art and literature developed. Volume 1 (Nehemia Levtzion, Daniela TalmonHeller, Daphna Ephrat, 1998, 272 pp.) Part 1: The birth of a religion Part 2: Sects in Islam Part 3: From Arabization to Islamization Volume 2 (Nehemia Levtzion, Daniela TalmonHeller, Daphna Ephrat, 1998, 208 pp.) Part 1: The development of Islamic law Part 2: Theological debates and their political impact Part 3: Islamic mysticism Volume 3 (Nehemia Levtzion, Daniela TalmonHeller, Daphna Ephrat, 1998, 252 pp.) Part 1: The Ulama and secular rulers in the late Middle Ages Part 2: The institutionalization of Islam: Law, education and mysticism Part 3: The expansion of Islam into Asia and Africa Volume 4 (2008, 300 pp.) Part 1: Islamic revivalist and reform movements in the 18th century (Atallah Copty) Part 2: Modernism and secularism: The Islamic response to the Western challenge (Daphna Ephrat) Part 3: Islamic fundamentalism (Meir Hatina)
* Daphna Ephrat, professor of History at the Open University of Israel, is an expert on medieval Muslim societies. She is the author of A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: The Sunni Ulama of Eleventh-Century Baghdad (SUNY, 2000) and Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Islam crystallized as a religion which secluded itself from the pre-Islamic system on the one hand, and from the JudeoChristian system on the other hand, and within this process of disengagement there is a kind of crystallization.
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This 9 volume series, edited by Haggai Erlich, spans the Middle East a broad geographic region from northern Africa and Sudan through the Gulf States to Turkey and Iran and covers the crucial, history-altering periods from the end of World War II in 1945 until the dawn of the 21st century. Each volume is devoted to a specific nation-state or people within the region, and was written by a scholar specializing in that country. As such, this series offers a unique cross-section of dynamic views and perspectives, enriched with narratives and visual documentation. Each book reviews a specific nation-state, analyzing its uniqueness, how it interacts with societies around it, and the impact on the evolution of traditional customs and heritages. With the rise of populist revolutions throughout the Middle East, this series provides an invaluable perspective of current events.
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Haggai Erlich is one of the very few scholars, who regularly cross the African/ Middle Eastern and the Africanist/Middle Easternist divide... Primarly a specialist on Ethiopia, he has also done original research on Egypt and published extensively on Ethiopian/Egyptian (and Middle Eastern) relations.
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Haggai Erlich*
For many decades, Egypt has played a central role in the modern Middle East. Since the end of World War II, its modern history can be characterized by four different leadership styles, each one casting its personality over the entire region. In this book, Prof. Haggai Erlich, a leading scholar of the Middle East and Africa, analyzes the four styles and their impact on the country and the region. Following World War II, Egypt was in the hands of a ruling elite. In 1952, the Nasser-led revolution overthrew the ruling party, hallmarked by a change in the countrys social priorities and a drive to unite all Arab speakers in the region under the leadership of Egypt. Following Nassers death, Anwar Sadat came into power in 1970 and greater emphasis was placed on economic and social issues, as well as on peace efforts. His assassination in 1981 swept in Hosni Mubarak, who for nearly three decades worked on reconciling the countrys internal diversity of identities and directions, which continue to reflect on the entire region.
This book follows the hopes and dreams, the dramas and revolutions of the Egyptian people, who followed their leaders and reshaped their nation. 2003, 344 pp.
* Haggai Erlich is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, academic consultant at the Open University where he is head of Middle Eastern History studies, and Landau Prize recipient for 2010 in African studies.
Nassers form of Arab Socialism... was analogous to re-cocking Egypts coil towards its future penetration into the entire Arab sphere.
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Michael Eppel*
Situated within the fertile crescent, Iraqs modern day history has been galvanized by its search to regain prominence within the Arab world. Yet, in this search, Iraqs path has been strewn with revolutions, wars, and ruthless dictatorships. Diverse internal groups Arab Shiites, Arab Sunnis, Kurds, Turkmans and others all vying with each other, created a dynamic of religious, social, cultural and ethnic tensions that have reached beyond the countrys expansive borders. Iraq: Monarchy, Republic, Tyranny provides an indepth look at the countrys patchwork of religiously, ethnically and politically-motivated incessantly antagonistic groups and their impact as individual groups on the countrys political and historical changes. Dr. Eppel completed the book just as a new system of government was put in place in Iraq. He explores the reorganization of the country and the crucial challenges that confront the new Iraqi government on a national and regional basis. 2005, 320 pp.
* Michael Eppel, of the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, is a leading scholar on the Middle East, with interests in Iraq and Kurdish history.
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The step taken towards the war which brought the end of the Saddam regime is a chapter in American history no less than a chapter in the history of the Middle East and of Iraq.
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Joseph Nevo*
Is Jordan the home of an integrated JordanianPalestinian community? Or, is Jordan the home of a Jordanian-Hashemite society? Perhaps more than any other nation-state in the M iddle East, Jordan has experienced dramatic political, territorial and demographic transformations. The way in which it has coped with these transformations internally and externally provides salient, telling indications of how the country will fare in the future. Its legitimacy as a kingdom, carved out of the conservative Hashemite version of Arab nationalism, has been challenged throughout the decades. In spite of the assassination of the founding father, the illness of the father, and the repeated assassination attempts on the grandson, the kingdom has survived and thrived. In this book, Prof. Nevo carefully traces Jordans evolution from the nomadic-like ruling elite to a resilient mixture of a Western-oriented, Islamic, yet moderate and flexible society, and in so doing, provides insights into how Jordan will overcome the upheavals currently sweeping the Middle East. 2005, 336 pp.
* Joseph Nevo, Jordanian and Palestinian political history scholar and academic, is a member of the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa.
King [Abdullah] understood the concept of the Palestinian objection and was willing to accept it, but rejected the concept of the Palestinian revolution because that implied an unwanted and violent response to the extant situation.
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Moshe Maoz*
In this book, one of the worlds leading scholars of modern day Syria, Prof. Moshe Maoz, examines how Syria has struggled throughout the decades to find its unique voice. Caught between pan-Arabism, internal ethnic and religious conflicts, political nationalism, and its dreams of Bilad al-Sham or Greater Syria, Syria has suffered from an identity crisis. Whether to open itself up to the West or to bury itself deeper in Arab religious and political nationalism. Whether to come to terms with its own geographical borders or to seek political alliances beyond them. Whether to continue to manipulate an unbalanced, struggling economy or to open marketplaces and create opportunities. Now with the Alawite ruling party, under Bashar al-Assad, battling to retain its position and power, this extensive look at the evolution of the Alawite dominance, albeit a minority, the countrys identity crisis, and its relations with its immediate and more distant neighbors can provide valuable insights into the Syria that will emerge following todays turmoil.
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Lebanon, the land of cedar trees, is a country of a multiplicity of cultural participants and the sphere of unceasing struggles between powerful, warring factions. In Lebanon: The Challenge of Diversity, the country is presented as one that is composed of a multitude of cultures, religions and ethnic groups in a region of autocratic Arab states. The book illustrates the countrys cultural differences. While most of the neighboring nation-states deposed their veteran ruling parties in the 1950s and 60s, Lebanon retained its ruling families, who had been in power since as far back as the 1800s. The modern day rise of the Shiites in South Lebanon has served to complicate the country and the region. This book also covers the involvement and interference of other regional forces in Lebanon: nation states like Syria, Iran, and Israel, and the Palestinians all helping to lead to the further empowerment of the Shiites and the unhinging of the tapestry of ethnic groups. Forthcoming
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Mustafa Kabha*
Unlike the other 8 books in this series, The Palestinians: A People Dispersed does not deal with a nation-state but rather a people. A people whose story has played a pivotal role on the regional and international stages. Prof. Mustafa Kabha of the Open University of Israel traces the evolution of the Palestinian national movement from the riots of 1936 and 1939 to the demise of Arafat and the rise of Hamas in the new century. While many historians have focused on the Palestinians dispersal as a result of international and regional forces, Prof. Kabha prefers to closely examine the currents that powered the Palestinian people the nature of its leadership, social-culturaleconomic tensions and the regional conflicts and Like other Arab societies, the players. Palestinians, too, deliberate Like many of its counterparts throughout the Arab between their desire to world, the Palestinians, too, are struggling with their realize their modern, national aspirations to become a modern day nation on the aspirations and the fulfillment international stage with an as-of-yet unidentified of the political Islamic way of political Islamic identity. What kind of state will life. emerge from this struggle and what will its role be Prof. Haggai Erlich, Introduction
within the region are questions that can be carefully considered against the backdrop of the in-depth perspective of the Palestinian people presented in this book. 2010, 320 pp.
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* Mustafa Kabha is head of the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israels and a researcher in the areas of modern Middle Eastern history, the history of the Palestinian national movement, and Arab mass media. He is the author of numerous books and articles in Arabic, English and Hebrew.
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Uzi Rabi*
Saudi Arabia began as a joint venture between a fundamentalist Islamic movement and a local ruling dynasty. In spite of or perhaps because of the extra-ordinariness of this coalition, Saudi Arabia has survived and prospered since emerging from the sands of the Arabian Desert in the first half of the 20th century. Since its establishment as the 13th largest country in the world, it has been ruled by a single family, who has navigated its monarchy during the past century through diverse and conflicting internal and external forces. The book is divided into three major time periods. Beginning with the founding father, Prof. Rabi describes the unique formula that ibn Saud devised for bringing together various tribal, traditional, religious and political elements under one roof. In the second section, he examines how the Saudi monarchy propelled and directed the country through the external threats of regional pan-Arabism and Nasserism, and the internal dynamics of the rise of a middle class. In the third section, Prof. Rabi moves on to the 21st century. Saudi Arabia now faces with additional challenges: Will the ruling family be able to once again find the magic formula for not only survival but continued prosperity? Will the external forces challenging long-standing regimes in the region pierce the kingdoms walls? Will the internal forces of liberal, Western-oriented values conflagrate the monarchy? This book suggests that many answers can be found in the countrys decades-old ability to navigate a thorny labyrinth of rival religious and political forces. 2007, 232 pp.
From the very beginning, the [Saudi Arabian] royalty sought the proper way to reap the fruits of the new era of oil, without harming their latent traditions and culture.
* Uzi Rabi, of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, is an expert on the modern history of states in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, oil and politics in the Middle East, and the evolution of states and societies in the Middle East.
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Anat Lapidot*
In this book, the reader is engaged in a discussion of modern-day Turkey from the time of its detachment from Islamic tradition and its greater identification with the Middle East during the leadership of Mustafa Kamal Attaturk. That landmark change is currently being followed by the return of political Islamism and a desire to regain a position of regional prominence and dominance, as in the days of the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Anat Lapidot discusses the national ideal against the backdrop of social, economic and strategic developments. She analyzes Turkish politics in a period of rapid urbanization which, in turn, led to the rise of a class struggle. Out of this apparent conflict came the undermining of the military as a political factor, and the strengthening of the Islamic-national branch, eventually leading to the rise to power of Erdogan and the National Islamic Movement. Forthcoming
* Anat Lapidot is a senior research fellow and academic director of the Mediterranean Neighbours Unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She teaches Turkish foreign policy and contemporary Middle East politics in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
One of the historic processes... which began immediately after the second World War and continued... until the 21st century, was the change in the balance of powers between the center of the country and the periphery, and the establishment of alternative centers to the central one... as part of the vision of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk.
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Moshe Aharonov, Meir Litvak*

In this book, Dr. Moshe Aharonov and Dr. Meir Litvak offer a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian political scene from World War II until the Khomeini revolution. Iran: From Persian Monarchy to Islamic Revolution explains the exaggerated aspirations of the Shah, his corruption and remoteness on one hand, and the miscalculations of the United States on the other, all of which provided the impetus for the Khomeini revolution. The authors also discuss the rule of the Ayatollah, his aspirations, achievements and weaknesses, and the social and religious forces and ideas that led to the downfall of the ancient monarchy. In spite of the ruling Islamic theocracys attempts at dialog with these forces and their desire to bridge the gaps, almost all the attempts led to failure. The similarities and differences between Shiite Iran and the Sunni countries in the region are also delineated. Forthcoming
* Moshe Aharonov teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. * Meir Litvak is a senior fellow at the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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Yitzhak Shichor, Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach*
All-under-Heaven: Imperial China is a two volume work that offers a systematic, contemporary and comprehensive view of the ideas, evolution and lifestyles of the Chinese emperors. It surveys the growth and development of the Chinese Empire from the beginning of civilization in the eastern part of the Asian continent, to the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, in 1912. The authors describe the historical, cultural, social and political development of pre-modern China in an exciting and engaging fashion. Why were Chinese emperors more exalted than their counterparts around the world? What ideas brought about their rise to power? How does one account for their existence over two millennia? The authors examine the political, social, technological, economic and administrative processes that led to the consolidation of the Chinese Empire. Written by leading scholars on China, these books provide a foundation for understanding the rise of modern China and the character of the Chinese revolution.
Volume 1 (2011, 422 pp.) Origins of the Chinese Empire Volume 2 (forthcoming) Early Imperial China
* Yitzhak Shichor, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is an expert on premodern China and China in the international system. * Yuri Pines, of the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a specialist in Chinese political thought in imperial China. * Gideon Shelach, Director of the Louis Frieberg Center for East-Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is an authority on the archaeology of China.
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The Chinese emperors were a unique phenomenon in the history of mankind, for several reasons. One, because of their continuity: the Chinese emperors existed in contiguity for more than 2,000 years, except for a few periods... Second, because of the size of the population: Imperial China was always the most highly populated country on the face of the earth... Third, because of its wealth: until the beginning of the 19th century, the economy of imperial China was the largest in the world, accounting for some 40% of the worlds wealth at that time.
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Onn Winckler*
What does the word populations symbolize to you? For some, populations are merely statistics, numbers of people living in a specific area during a specific period of time. Others view populations as potential targets for marketing goods and services. What is common to both these points of view is the fact that they view populations as static entities. Not the demographer, however. For the demographer, populations are dynamic entities, changing every moment. The demographers research focuses on the causes and outcomes of these movements and changes, in order to gain a better understanding of political, national and economic dynamics. Prof. Onn Wincklers book, Twentieth Century Political Demography in the Arab World takes a look at the changes in the Arab populations particularly during the latter half of the 20th century, when the chains of the colonial powers were thrown off, and the countries became independent, sovereign states. These changes, radical in their time, impacted on the economy, which left its own imprimatur on the newly established, independent nations internal politics, inter-Arab relations and Arab relations on the global stage. Chapters: Rapid population growth in Arab countries in the 20th century; The economic consequences of high birth rates in Arab countries in the second half of the 20th century; Movement of labor workers between Arab countries; The effects of immigration on the large labor exporters: Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Syria; Policy regarding reproduction in Arab countries in the second half of the 20th century. 2008, 365 pp.
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Only in the second half of the 1980s, after the collapse of oil prices in international markets and the decline of Arab workers in the oil industry, did Egypt begin to institute reforms in the economy and family planning.
* Onn Winckler, a professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, is an expert on demographic and economic history of the modern Arab world. He is the author of Arab Political Demography: Population Growth, Labor Migration and Natalist Policies (Sussex Academic Press, 2009).
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Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Nurith Gertz*

Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua are both renowned Israeli novelists, who single-handedly influenced a new generation of writers, virtually changing the shape and contour of Israeli literature. Until Amos Ozs publication of his first stories in the quarterly Keshet at the end of the 1950s, Israeli literature was largely designed to promote and encourage a Socialist-Zionist agenda. Ozs portrayal of real life struggles on the Kibbutz, shattered this magic mirror and helped to pave the way for a new generation of Israeli writers whose agendas and writing styles radically differ from those of writers in the early days of the Israeli state. It was not only characters and the portrayal of ideals where Oz and Yehoshua chose to deviate from their predecessors; there were also stylistic and literary differences. Excerpts from a wide range of the authors writings provide readers with the opportunity to delve deeply into both writers mindsets and learn from their skillful writing styles. This three volume series places Oz and Yehoshua in a cultural-social-historical context, enabling readers to gain a profound understanding of the seminal importance of their writings in literary circles, within Israeli society and on the national and international stage. Volume 1 (2010, 163 pp.) Part 1: Change of generations in Israeli literature Part 2: Moshe Shamirs He Walked in the Fields Volume 2 Amos Oz (2010, 278 pp.) Part 1: Where the Jackals Howl Part 2: My Michael Part 3: Late Love Part 4: Unto Death Volume 3 A.B. Yehoshua (2010, 264 pp.) Part 1: The Yatir Evening Express Part 2: Facing the Forests Part 3: The Continuing Silence of a Poet and Early in the Summer of 1970 Part 4: The Lover
* Adia Mendelson-Maoz is a member of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. * Nurith Gertz is Professor Emerita in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. She is an expert on Israeli cinema and literature and the author of Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream (Vallentine Mitchell, 2000) and co-author of Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.
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Moshe Negbi*
Does Israeli media promote its own agenda? Do personal beliefs of Israeli journalists cloud their journalistic integrity? Does the Israeli press play an influential role in government policy? Is there balanced coverage on issues of national interest? In light of the states ongoing wars, does Israeli media have to abide by different ethical standards? There is no doubt that Israeli media is on the front lines both literally and figuratively. Freedom of the Journalist and Freedom of the Press in Israel was written by Moshe Negbi, one of Israels leading legal commentators and analysts, who regularly appears on Israel Radio and national televisions Channel One network. The book maps the life line of mass media in Israel from the establishment of the State until today. It offers an in-depth perspective of the legal and ethical issues that Israels mass media must confront in times of peace and in times of war, and considers the minefield of legal, security, political, religious and cultural issues so endemic to the countrys unique geopolitical situation. This book is more than a description of the institutional aspects of mass media. It also acts as a two-way mirror, examining the impact of mass media radio, television, printed press and the new media on Israeli society. 2011, 360 pp.
* Moshe Negbi is a leading Israeli legal analyst and legal commentator for the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
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What is the purpose of allowing freedom of speech and press? Why should a government that regards its own actions as proper and justified expose itself to criticism? Obviously, that same government would not conceive of allowing the use of firearms against it, and all would agree that ideas are mightier than any gun.
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Alec Mishory*
What roles, if any, did icons, coins, stamps, posters and emblems play in the early days of the State? What ideas did pre-State art and symbols try to convey? Have the symbols used by artists been altered, or are their meanings and intents the same? Dr. Alec Mishorys book, Lo and Behold, is a carefully documented review of the symbolism behind the countrys outward artistic visual expressions. Divided into three sections, the first part deals with visual expressions of Zionist ideas created by individual artists in pre-State days. Part two analyzes exemplary emblems that were primarily created to convey ideas on behalf of the State. The third part examines the unique contemporary trend in Israeli graphic design that strives to separate itself from traditional Zionist concepts. Many of the icons and visual symbols that were deeply rooted in Zionist ideas were assimilated by Israeli artists and designers and used to express very different messages. As these symbols became more rooted in Israeli culture, they were elaborated upon and changed, and, as is often the case, as they became an inseparable part of the new IsraeliJewish-Hebrew culture, the sources that gave rise to them were forgotten. 2000, 384 pp.
* Alec Mishory is a member of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel and has lectured at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
When the citizens of Tel Aviv in the 1920s looked at the ceramic tile decorations adorning The Municipal Schools facade, they beheld iconic images, based directly on a traditional Jewish lexicon with which they were familiar... The designers of the new Hebrew culture believed that their era announced the beginnings of the Jewish Peoples salvation and a contemporary Return to Zion in the newly cultivated secular Jewish Homeland.
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Oren Soffer*
This book investigates one of the turning points in the social-political history of Israeli mass media, from the time of the first Hebrew newspapers until the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. Mass Communication in Israel offers a comprehensive view of the development of newspapers, radio, television and internet in Israel, while relating these to cultural and institutional perspectives. The core theoretical axis of the book is an examination of mass media as a tool for constructing a national Israeli identity on one hand, and for pragmatism and globalization on the other. It presents a vivid and updated review of the active arena of mass communication in Israel, and offers unique insights into its roles in shaping the complex national identity. 2011, 405 pp.
* Oren Soffer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel.
The case of the growth of the Hebrew press is a special one. In other cultures, the press developed around different dialects in territorial regions, and only later did the dialect become the language of the newspaper. In contrast, the Hebrew press was connected to secularism yet was written in the holy language of the Jewish people... In addition, the basis of territorial contiguity or proximity did not exist among the Jewish people, as they were spread throughout the world.
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Dan Urian*
Israeli society is a mosaic of diverse cultures. Secular and religious, Jews from western lands and Jews from Arab lands, new immigrants and veteran citizens. Is Israeli society a lively mosaic or a raucous melting pot? Over a five decade period, Israeli theatre provided an image of the conflicts within this new and emerging society struggling to create an identity. Yet, was this an accurate picture or was the stage used to promote an ideological agenda? And, did Israeli theatre reflect societys ills or create stereotypes? Prof. Dan Urians research on the evolution of modern Israeli theatre, and his analysis of leading productions in each decade, offers a fascinating in-depth portrait of a world where the Israeli stage underwent its own evolution, alongside the country, sometimes in tandem and sometimes not. Urian focuses on the stereotype of the Jew from North African and Arab countries and how he was portrayed on stage, which often exemplified or embodied other conflicts. The book also includes a comprehensive index of all Israeli theatre productions. 2004, 336 pp.
* Dan Urian is professor of Theatre Arts at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of several books, among them, The Arab in Israeli Drama and Theatre (Routledge, 1997) and The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre (Routledge, 2000), and co-editor of In Search of Identity: Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture (Routledge, 1998).
As if you could draw a line, and say below this line is poverty... When I was a little boy they called our house a shack We called it a transit camp The only line I saw was the horizon and everything below it looked like poverty to me...
Excerpt from a poem, The Poverty Line, by Ronnie Somek, written in the 1980s. Somek was born in Baghdad and brought to Israel as a young child.
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Nurith Gertz*
Early Zionist ideology, intent on establishing a national homeland for the Jewish people, was equally intent on redefining what characteristics a real Israeli should possess. The cinema and literature from the early to mid-20th century portrayed the new Israeli, dispensed with any characteristics that were easily identified with European Jewry what they considered the Diaspora. These films and novels cast Holocaust survivors as the other or the alien in the new State of Israel. This definition pitted the survivors along with other Diaspora Jews, soon joined by women and Arabs on one side against the true Israeli-Hebrew Sabra male on the other. On theater stages, on the pages of literary works, and in cinema houses across the country, people living under one roof within the confines of the State, were identified as either us or them. The consequences were manifold, playing off one group against another, launching a race among sectors of society to prefer one alien group over another, suppressing and/or reshaping Holocaust survivors memories, and eventually creating a situation where people learned to recognize the others rights and integrate them into the tapestry of Israeli society. 2004, 213 pp. Am Oved / The Open University of Israel
* Nurith Gertz is Professor Emerita in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. She is an expert on Israeli cinema and literature and the author of Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream (Vallentine Mitchell, 2000) and co-author of Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
I have never read a book whereby the literary elegance encounters the personal truth, in such moving, unforgettable totality. This is a book that must not be missed.
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Yael Munk*
Israeli Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium describes a very special decade in Israeli cinema, a decade that opened with the last days of the first Intifadah and the Camp David Peace process and ended with the Second Intifadah, known as the el-Aksa Intifadah. Compared to the tumultuous events in the public sphere, the 90s Israeli feature films opted for a soul searching process in which, for the first time, individuals faced the impact of the numerous national traumas on their personal identity. Though these historical facts are not represented on screen, their traces can be read in each and every narrative. At times hyper-realistic, at times fantastic, Israeli feature cinema of the 90s can be read as the intellectual introduction to successful Israeli cinema today. 2012, 205 pp.
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Israeli cinema in the 90s registered the privatization of Israel identity. Its protagonists were depicted as suffering from a kind of internal exile, as exiles in their own country. This cinema seems to reflect an island of meaning that points at the uncertainty and the emotional detachment of those who had become the victims of hegemony within their own boundaries, and who chose to separate themselves from the dominant official discourse of the country that of increasing disagreement between the left and right wings of the political map and to invent new territories, both concrete and imagined ones, which would lead to the constitution of a new order.
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Nurith Gertz, George Khleifi*

True, the Jews and Palestinians may share the same landscape, but their cinematic voices are radically diverse. Searching for the voice and the underlying story of Palestinian cinema brought together two scholars, one a Palestinian lecturer from Ramallah University and the other a Jewish professor from the Open University. The result is a detailed, thought provoking look at Palestinian cinema and the integral role the national movements ideology played in cinematic productions, oftentimes usurping other messages. Readers will review how earlier Palestinian filmmakers such as Michel Khlefi, Rashid Masharawi, Ali Nassar, Elia Suleiman and others were able to express the national movements message through individual personal stories. Readers will also learn about the struggle of filmmakers creating genre films during and between the Intifadas, known as Roadblock Movies. The extensive filmography included in the book is an excellent guide for readers, scholars or researchers who wish to explore the subject in greater depth. 2006, 230 pp. Am Oved / The Open University of Israel
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We are a nation that history has forgotten.
Sayigh, 1998
* Nurith Gertz is Professor Emerita in the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. She is an expert on Israeli cinema and literature and the author of Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream (Vallentine Mitchell, 2000) and co-author of Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2008). * George Khleifi is a Palestinian scholar and film director.
We are a nation that forgot its history.

Emil Habibi, 1969
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Thomas Elsaesser, Boaz Hagin*

What hides behind the coolness of the character played by actor Samuel Jackson in Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction? What trauma underlies Clint Eastwoods Mystic River? Is there a deep, secret motive for actor Jodie Fosters character in Jonathan Demis Silence of the Lambs? Written by Dr. Boaz Hagin, this book is based on a series of lectures on trauma, memory and fantasy research, both of the individual and the collective, as given by Prof. Thomas Elsaesser. The authors posit that trauma, memory and fantasy can be used effectively as tools in researching and gaining a more profound understanding of culture. The method is applied to selected contemporary American films, analyzing three core traumas in American culture: the enemy within (the melting pot) trauma, the empire trauma and the racial trauma. The cinematic representations of trauma and their relationship to contemporary American culture may indicate how America is coping with the economic and social changes sweeping its society.
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There are interesting and complex connections between the collective memory and a group of individuals... The individual cannot remember without the group which gives meaning to his memories; as such... the collective memory is not only an expression of the need for a specific collective, but can take part in creating the collective itself; by uniting groups of immigrants from different places into a single 2012, 382 pp. nation, the American nation, as one such example.
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Zion Evrony*
Human Rights in International Relations offers a comprehensive view of the principle questions and dilemmas confronting the international community on the issue of human rights. Today, the protection of human rights is an issue not only for individual countries, but for the international community as well, and as such is a factor in international diplomacy. Yet human rights continue to be abused around the world: torture, imprisonment without trial, sexual, religious and racial discrimination, and mass extermination. The book offers a sweeping, in-depth review of human rights including prominent milestones on the international stage, among them the creation of international courts to try war crimes, the establishment of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the broadening of judicial powers on an international basis, greater international intervention in humanitarian affairs and the empowerment of non-governmental organizations (NGOs.)
In addition, the book examines the protection of the rights of specific groups in the culture and society in which they live, reviews activities and competencies regarding individual rights in these societies, and takes a close look at the place of human rights in countries outside of the United States, Europe and Israel. One of the objectives of this book is to make the reader more profoundly aware of ongoing abuses of human rights around the world, and to emphasize the seminal importance of using diplomatic efforts to prevent them wherever they may take place. 2011, 254 pp.
* Zion Evrony was Israels ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2010. He has taught International Relations as a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.
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The challenge confronting international diplomacy at the start of the 21st century is to continue to develop an international government based on the fundamentals of human rights, dedicated to preventing acts such as the tragedies of the past and devoted to the process of globalization with the goal of creating a cohesive universal culture based on democracy and the protection of individual rights.
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The series of books on genocide is a groundbreaking work of monumental proportions. A major intellectual and spiritual achievement, the Open University is the first academic institution to assemble such a broad ranging series dealing with, what is largely, the unthinkable. This is a 12-volume series, carefully researched and assembled for the first time; a historical, analytical, psychological and educational look at the mass extermination of nine national groups on four continents. This is not a series of texts to be casually read. Rather, these are texts that must be digested with deliberation, intelligence, understanding and careful analysis. For at the heart of each volume is the inchoate question that lies at the heart of the human race: How can human beings be so destructive, so unbearably evil towards their fellow human beings? Scratch the surface and we find the real question that tugs at us all: Can I be this cruel or evil toward my fellow man? The answers, according to Prof. Yair Auron of the Open Universitys Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communications, are difficult for most decent people to grasp.
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Yair Auron*
In this first book of the 12-volume series, Prof. Yair Auron provides a comprehensive analysis of genocide, comparing it to similar, yet nonidentical concepts, reviews a multitude of theories and typologies, and challenges the reader to consider some complex, unsettling issues. The book attempts to answer some difficult questions: What is genocide? Why have more people been killed in genocidal acts than in any other cause? Was the Holocaust genocide? This book lays the stage for the Genocide series.
Genocide is a serious crime by which people murder other people due to their membership in a group of national, ethnic, racial, or religious character, unrelated to any personal accusation against the individuals killed. This book explores the concept of genocide (and an assortment of related concepts, including Holocaust, politicide, democide, and ethnocide), the challenges in defining it, and relevant debates. It surveys the major theories and typologies that have been developed to explain the genocides committed after the Holocaustgenocides that have taken the lives of millions of innocent people. This book was published as part of a series entitled Genocide. The series consists of eight volumes which together provide a comprehensive exploration of the subject. Each volume stands alone in its own right, but is also an integral part of a broader assessment of the phenomenon. Professor Yair Auron, author of this book and editor of the series, teaches about genocide, genocide education, and contemporary Jewry at the Open University of Israel. He has published numerous books and articles on these subjects in Israel and in other countries.
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Genocide Reflections on the Inconceivable

Yair Auron
2006, 183 pp.
Reflections on the Inconceivable

Theoretical Aspects of Genocide Studies
Yair Auron
Genocide
* Yair Auron is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. A specialist on Holocaust and Genocide studies, he is the author of The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (Transaction, 2000) and The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide (Transaction, 2003).
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Only a dialectical approach recognizing both the unique and the universal can enable Israeli society to strike the necessary balance between focusing on the Holocaust and openness to consider other cases of genocide.
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Yair Auron, Isaac Lubelsky*

Prof. Yair Auron and Dr. Isaac Lubelsky deal with the symbiotic relationship between racism and genocide and the different ways in which they were expressed across history and in many different geographical locations.
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Yair Auron, Isaac Lubelsky
No one is born a racist, yet children do become racists in childhood and continue into adulthood and practice or give expression to their racism toward their peers. Sadly, no one is naturally immune to racism, yet without education about racism and without actively combating racism and genocide, the human race has little chance to avoid it. This book offers a collection of articles, the fruit of a cooperative effort between the Open University of Israel and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Racism and Anti-Semitism at Tel Aviv University.
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2011, 254 pp.
For centuries, racism, hatred of foreigners and anti-Semitism resulted in persecution, bloody wars, and terrible massacres... Unfortunately, racism, lack of tolerance and persecution of strangers and minorities continue to be widespread.
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Arnon Gutfeld*
The extermination of the Indians of North America (now termed Native Americans) is but one terrifying example of colonial genocide, whereby immigrants from the old world arrived in the new world and brought with them sometimes idealistic views of their place, their role and their inherent mandate to dominate what already existed in the new world. The mass murder of Native Americans (a term that only came into usage in the late 20th century) was echoed in Australia with the native aborigines.
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Arnon Gutfeld
In this book, Prof. Gutfeld reviews and explicates the expressed and hidden motives that empowered genocide, and the methods implemented. Prof. Gutfeld pays special attention to the role assigned to the legal system and its function in enabling the execution of large numbers of individuals. All of this is presented against the paradoxical backdrop of a liberal, pioneering, democratic society in the making. 2006, 238 pp.
Genocide in the "Land of the Free"

Arnon Gutfeld
Genocide
* Arnon Gutfeld, a leading Israeli scholar who has published extensively on American history and American Constitutional history, is Associate Professor of American History at Tel Aviv University.
The Indians of North America 17761890
When I was a young boy, the Sioux were masters of the world: the sun rose and set on their lands. They sent tens of thousands of men into battle. Where are these warriors today? Who killed them? Where are our lands? Who rules over them...Can it truly be wrong to love that which is mine? Can I be truly evil because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux? Because I was born where my father was born? Because I am ready to die for my people and for my land?
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Eitan Ginzberg*
40 million Indians were killed with the arrival of the white man in Central and South America. Some died of natural causes the Indians were not immune to the diseases that the Europeans brought with them, but many more died of brutality, slavery and starvation. Eventually, after so many years of highly evolved and creative societies, the last survivors of the great Incan, Mayan and Aztec nations were overcome by a sense of desperation.
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Eytan Ginzberg The Open University of Israel
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On April 24, 1915, as World War I was coming to a close, the Ottoman Empire, nearing total defeat and waning in power, began one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century: the genocide of the Armenian people.
In this book, the Armenian genocide is analyzed from historical, political and ideological perspectives. A special chapter is devoted to genocide denial and its devastating impact on those whose tragedy is denied as well as the deniers themselves. 2007, 183 pp. Publisher: Contento de Semrik
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yAIR aURON
In four years, the Ottomans killed more than one million Armenians, a people who for 2,400 years had lived between the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean Seas. Those who somehow managed to survive, a small portion, fled to the four corners of the earth. While this was not the first genocide of the 20th century, it was the first one that received extensive publicity and countries as far flung as the United States learned of the genocide from their newspapers and media outlets.
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Turkey, which was established in 1923, denied the genocide, but since 1965, with Armenians and others around the world calling for international recognition, the Armenian tragedy is receiving greater and greater attention.
Without a doubt, the Armenian genocide was conducted with the knowledge of and in the presence of diplomatic representatives from Turkeys allies: Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were in the capital city and in other towns throughout the Ottoman Empire. American diplomats were also present in different areas throughout the empire until April 1917. Then, the United States abandoned its position of neutrality to join the war against Germany.
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Ariel Hurwitz*
What is the difference between Genocide and Holocaust? Historians have been occupied in an ongoing debate, sometimes bitter, over the meanings of these terms, and whether or not they are distinguishable.
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Genocide Hurban-The Destruction of the Jews by Nazi Germany

Ariel Hurwitz
In this book, Dr. Ariel Hurwitz categorizes the Holocaust as genocide, while concomitantly admitting that it possesses outstanding and unique characteristics. This book, in contrast to the others in the series, engages the reader in a historical-philosophical perspective rather than tracing historical events. Assuming that the reader has been sufficiently exposed to information about the Holocaust, this book examines other seminal issues, such as the personality of the murderer, rescue attempts, reactions to the Holocaust after the war, memory its uniqueness and denial and the universality of the Holocaust.
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* Ariel Hurwitz is the editor of Moreshet, an academic journal for the study of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, and lectures at Yad Vashem and at seminars.
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From that fire, which enveloped your tortured and burnt bodies We ignited a torch for our souls, In which we lit the blaze of freedom, And with which we marched into battle for our land... We have avenged your bitter and lonely deaths With our fist, heavy and warm; 2010, 183 pp. To the burnt ghetto we built here a monument, A monument of life a life which shall never be forsaken.
Ariel Hurwitz
From That Fire, by Haim Gouri, Israeli poet, novelist, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
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Gilad Margalit*
Among the groups the Nazi regime singled out for persecution were the Roma (Gypsies) who lived in small communities throughout Europe. It is estimated that a quarter of the Gypsy population was killed during World War II. Yet, to a very great degree, this genocide is a forgotten one, even to this day. This can be partly explained by the low socio-economic standing that the Gypsies have in Europe to this day.
unsettling questions. How is one ethnic group selected for extermination? Which minority groups and why become victims? What is our own role in acknowledging the genocide of an ethnic group? Does ignoring or forgetting genocide contribute to future ones? 2006, 165 pp.
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Genocide Nazi Germany and the Gypsies

Gilad Margalit
In spite of the many similarities between the genocide of the Jewish people and that of the Gypsies in Europe, the genocide of the Gypsies has its own unique characteristics. Dr. Gilad Margalit reviews the evolution of the Gypsies as a unique ethnic group from the Middle Ages to the Nazi era and analyzes the Nazi policies regarding the Gypsies. Was this genocide, Dr. Margalit asks, and how aware are we, in particular the Jewish people and the State of Israel, of the mass extermination of one-fourth of this ethnic group?
Nazi Germany and the Gypsies
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By asking questions about the genocide of the Gypsies at the hands of the Nazis, we must also consider our own answers to some difficult,
During the last quarter of the 19th century, ideas, whose source was in race theory, began to spread and multiply within German society, and they won great popularity regarding the Gypsy population. The racist interpretation claimed that ones way of life is not a result of a particular mentality or of external forces, as members of the Enlightenment had claimed, but rather characteristics and urges that are genetically embedded and impossible to change.
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Benyamin Neuberger*
In the course of one hundred days, one million people were killed in the small East African country of Rwanda. In spite of the primitive means used for the killing, this genocide was the most rapidly executed one in the 20th century.
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Benyamin Neuberger
Neighbors killed neighbors, friends killed friends, relatives killed relatives. For many, the genocide of the Tutsis at the hands of the Hutus could have been prevented. Why wasnt it? What steps, if any, could the world have taken to stop this mass murder of Tutsi men, women and children? Prof. Neuberger analyzes the Rwandan genocide from both a historical and a political perspective, emphasizing the international dimension. 2005, 208 pp.
Rwanda 1994: Genocide in the "Land of a Thousand Hills"

Benyamin Neuberger
Genocide
* Benyamin Neuberger, of the Open Universitys Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communications, and a scholar of African politics, is the author of numerous books and articles on nationalism and ethnicity in Africa.
Lets exterminate them all!

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Lydia Aran*
In the course of fifty years, the Chinese government destroyed 95% of the religious culture of Tibet. A culture with rich and complex rites and one ingrained with strong religious traditions, with the annexation of Tibet by Maoist China and the crushing of all things dear to the Tibetans, China nearly erased this nations values, rites and traditions from the face of the earth.
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Lydia Aran
Tibet has the highest percentage of Buddhist monks in the world, living alongside a brave and stubborn local population. At the head of the nation is the Dalai Lama, who serves both a religious and political role. While the Tibetans rejection and non-violent struggle against the Chinese take-over surprised even the Chinese, it did not halt them. More than one million people were killed in the quest to suppress this quiet nation.
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Prof. Lydia Aran provides an in-depth historical, religious and political description of what happened in Tibet in the second half of the 20th century. One of the central questions she addresses is: Is the murder of one million Tibetans genocide?
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Tibet is remote and other countries have their own worries and fears. We can understand their tendency to accept that what happened in Tibet as part of the cavern of history. But Tibet exists on this earth; the Tibetans are part of humanity; with their own unique culture; and they are assuredly sensitive to suffering.
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Alek D. Epstein*
During Stalins reign the reign that was designed to replace the oppressive, imperialistic rule of the Tsars some 54 million people were killed by the regime in order to enforce the new policies.
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Genocide Political and Ethnic Cleansing in the ussr, 1918-1953

Alek D. Epstein The Open University of Israel
Already during the 1950s, news of the Communist reign of terror began to reach Western countries. In recent years, a number of investigative studies have uncovered the extent of the regimes brutal actions against its own people. While there were a few cases of ethnic cleansings in Communist Russia, much of the extermination was conducted against the background of political beliefs. Was Stalins reign of terror genocide or strictly politicide? And is politicide genocide? Dr. Alek Epstein analyzes these issues and examines what is common to these two phenomena.
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Alek D. Epstein
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* Alek D. Epstein teaches at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State Lomonosov University and at the Jewish University of Moscow.
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During the frightening years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months waiting in prison queues in Leningrad. One day, somehow, someone picked me out. On that occasion there was a woman standing behind me, her lips blue with cold, who, of course, had never in her life heard my name. Jolted out of the torpor characteristic of all of us, she said into my ear (everyone whispered there), Could one ever describe this? And I answered, I can. It was then that something like a smile slid across what had previously been just a face.
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Israel Charny*
This volume draws its title from the Book of Deuteronomy (13:6) in which the Jewish people are warned about abandoning the tenets of the Lord, for the further afield they travel from the Bible, the closer they approach their own destruction.
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the Evil Inside of You" Israel Charny
This volume does not examine any specific genocide or mass extermination. Rather, the essence of the book lies in its title. My book demands that we look at ourselves before there is a holocaust-genocide scenario. My book demands that we examine the components in human psychology, which may lead many of us to be participants playing major or minor roles in the perpetration of a genocide. This is Prof. Charnys key point. It is not the group mentality, the culture, the society, the government, or the religious or military institutions that lead to genocide. Rather, it is the psychological make-up of the individual.
"And You Shall Destroy the Evil Inside of You"

We are the Human Beings who Commit Holocaust and Genocide
Israel Charny
Genocide
* Israel Charny, a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and lecturer on psychology and family therapy, has devoted half of his life to the classroom and clinic, and the other half to genocide scholarship. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999).
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This is not a book for everyone. It is a book for brave and authentic people who seek greater truth about the essence of man.
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Editor: Yair Auron*
Genocide begins with racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, from there, to murder, and then, in extreme cases, to genocide.
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Genocide So That I Wouldn't Be Among the Silent

Yair Auron
This book is a collection of some two dozen essays which describe and analyze the thoughts and behavior of people who are involved in genocidal acts. The essays discuss the behavior of the perpetuators, the victims and also of those who belong to third parties, such as saviors, indifferent bystanders and others who are in the grey area. Genocide is not a natural disaster. It is actions taken by one group of humans against another group that they have de-humanized. Genocide is not coincidental. It is carefully planned, thought out, and executed. That is the purpose of this volume and of the series in general. To ensure that society remains neither apathetic nor ignorant about genocides and, of even greater significance, that society and each individual, considers its own responsibility. 2010, 287 pp.
So That I Wouldn't Be Among the Silent
Genocide
Yair Auron
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Yair Auron*
Abusing the rights of man and remaining apathetic to the suffering of others, in effect, endangers the existence of the human race. How do societies educate on genocide? What happens within a society when it does not teach about genocide? This book focuses on genocide through an educational perspective. The author, a renowned scholar and historian, agrees that the subject is difficult to teach. Yet, by not doing so, Prof. Yair Auron posits, societies are endangering their humanity.
Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. A There are no definitive answers. The book presents specialist on Holocaust and Genocide studies, he is the author of a diversity of perspectives, providing detailed The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide descriptions of how various countries, including (Transaction, 2000) and The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide (Transaction, 2003). Israel, commemorate the Holocaust and how the subject of genocide is taught. The goal of the Article 1: The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time book is to enable readers to design educational of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to programs imbued with sensitivity, understanding prevent and to punish. and profound insight. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. * Yair Auron is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Political
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Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Lior Ben-Chaim*

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Beliefs and Opinions, Rabbi Saadiah Gaon

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Editor: Ora Limor*

Editors: Avriel Bar-Levav, Ron Margolin, Shmuel Feiner*

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Editor: Hanina Ben-Menahem*

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Editor: Bustenay Oded*

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The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church

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Editors: Ilana Kaufman, Mustafa Kabha*

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2012, 300 pp.

10510-5084 " 978-965-06-1331-0 "

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Editor: Daphna Ephrat*

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Rights Sold: English: USA, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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Moshe Aharonov, Meir Litvak*

Yitzhak Shichor, Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach*

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Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Nurith Gertz*

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Nurith Gertz, George Khleifi*

Rights sold: English: Scotland, UK, Edinburgh University Press.

We are a nation that history has forgotten.

We are a nation that forgot its history.