Discourse On The State Of The Jews
DOWNLOAD
Download Discourse On The State Of The Jews PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Discourse On The State Of The Jews book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Discourse On The State Of The Jews
DOWNLOAD
Author : Simone Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-07-08
Discourse On The State Of The Jews written by Simone Luzzatto and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with History categories.
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Discourse On The State Of The Jews
DOWNLOAD
Author : Luzzatto Simone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Discourse On The State Of The Jews written by Luzzatto Simone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Discourse On The State Of The Jews
DOWNLOAD
Author : Simone Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-07-08
Discourse On The State Of The Jews written by Simone Luzzatto and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with History categories.
The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.
Masters Of Discourse
DOWNLOAD
Author : Israel Shamir
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Masters Of Discourse written by Israel Shamir and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Political Science categories.
Welcome to the new world order, where mass media, a fully integrated public-opinion-forming machine of mind control had rendered the Left and Right obsolete and subservient to Zionism. Who are the people who own and operate this machine? Are they actually the Jewish Lobby? No, says Shamir. The formidable Jewish Lobby is just the visible tip of the iceberg, while below there are miles and miles of solid ice: media lords, chief editors, their favourite university pundits – in short, the Masters of Discourse. In this third volume of his writing, Israel Shamir travels around the world to find the reason for their captive hold over our thinking.
Defining Israel
DOWNLOAD
Author : Simon Rabinovitch
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 2018-11-12
Defining Israel written by Simon Rabinovitch and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-12 with History categories.
Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law is the first book in any language devoted to the controversial passage of Israel's nation-state law. Israel has no constitution, and though it calls itself the Jewish state there is no agreement among Israelis on how that fact should be reflected in the government's laws or by its courts. Since the 1990s a number of civil society groups and legislators have drafted constitutions and proposed Basic Laws with constitutional standing that would clarify what it means for Israel to be a "Jewish and democratic state." Are these bills liberal or chauvinist? Are they a defense of the Knesset or an attack on the independence of the courts? Is their intention democratic or anti-democratic? The fight over the nation-state law-whether to have one and what should be in it-toppled the 19th Knesset's governing coalition and, even after its passage on July 29, 2018, remains a point of contention among Israel's lawmakers and increasingly the Israeli public. Defining Israel brings together influential scholars, journalists, and politicians, observers and participants, opponents and proponents, Jews and Arabs, all debating the merits and meaning of Israel's nation-state law. Together with translations of each draft law, the final law, and other key documents, the essays and sources in Defining Israel are essential to understand the ongoing debate over what it means for Israel to be a Jewish and democratic state.
The Spirit Of Populism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ulrich Schmiedel
language : en
Publisher: Political and Public Theologie
Release Date : 2021
The Spirit Of Populism written by Ulrich Schmiedel and has been published by Political and Public Theologie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
"Populism is a buzzword. This compilation explores the significance of religion for the controversies stirred up by populist politics in European and American contexts in order to understand what lies behind the buzz. Engaging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic political thought and theology, contributions by more than twenty established and emerging scholars explore right-wing and left-wing protests, offering critical interpretations and creative interventions for a polarized public square. Both methodologically and thematically, the compilation moves beyond essentialist definitions of religion, encouraging a comparative approach to political theology today"--
An Introduction To The Critical Study And Knowledge Of The Holy Scriptures
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas Hartwell Horne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1821
An Introduction To The Critical Study And Knowledge Of The Holy Scriptures written by Thomas Hartwell Horne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1821 with Bible categories.
The Arab Jews
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yehouda A. Shenhav
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Arab Jews written by Yehouda A. Shenhav and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This book is about the social history of the Arab JewsJews living in Arab countriesagainst the backdrop of Zionist nationalism. By using the term "Arab Jews" (rather than "Mizrahim," which literally means "Orientals") the book challenges the binary opposition between Arabs and Jews in Zionist discourse, a dichotomy that renders the linking of Arabs and Jews in this way inconceivable. It also situates the study of the relationships between Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews in the context of early colonial encounters between the Arab Jews and the European Zionist emissariesprior to the establishment of the state of Israel and outside Palestine. It argues that these relationships were reproduced upon the arrival of the Arab Jews to Israel. The book also provides a new prism for understanding the intricate relationships between the Arab Jews and the Palestinian refugees of 1948, a link that is usually obscured or omitted by studies that are informed by Zionist historiography. Finally, the book uses the history of the Arab Jews to transcend the assumptions necessitated by the Zionist perspective, and to open the door for a perspective that sheds new light on the basic assumptions upon which Zionism was founded.
Analysing Fascist Discourse
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ruth Wodak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Analysing Fascist Discourse written by Ruth Wodak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and imperialist expansionist politics. And yet we are again confronted with the emergence, rise and success of extreme right wing political movements, across Europe and beyond, which frequently draw on fascist and national-socialist ideologies, themes, idioms, arguments and lexical items. Post-war taboos have forced such parties, politicians and their electorate to frequently code their exclusionary fascist rhetoric. This collection shows that an interdisciplinary critical approach to fascist text and talk—subsuming all instances of meaning-making (oral, visual, written, sounds, etc.) and genres such as policy documents, speeches, school books, media reporting, posters, songs, logos and other symbols—is necessary to deconstruct exclusionary meanings and to confront their inegalitarian political projects.
An Introduction To The Critical Study And Knowledge Of The Holy Scriptures Third Edition Corrected Etc
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas Hartwell HORNE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1822
An Introduction To The Critical Study And Knowledge Of The Holy Scriptures Third Edition Corrected Etc written by Thomas Hartwell HORNE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1822 with categories.