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Hertzberg, Arthur was born on June 9, 1921 in Lubaczow, Poland. Son of Zvi Elimelech and Nehamah (Alstadt) Hertzberg.
( Internationally known historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzb...)
Internationally known historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, best known for his classic The Zionist Idea, challenges us to reexamine the case for the legitimacy of the state of Israel from a secular point of view. He argues that the religious blinders of absolute thinking and hatred have obscured our vision. In this time of great turmoil in the Mideast, when conflict represents a potential nuclear threat to the region and to the world, it is an argument that is more relevant and urgent than ever. Charting a pragmatic middle path between the Israeli right wing and critics like Edward Said and Noam Chomsky, Hertzberg chronicles the conflict between the original secular vision of Israel and the illusions that came in the subsequent riptide of Israeli triumphalism and the myths of messianism. The deep need of the Israeli people for both power and security has created a paradox, one that can only be solved when the deeper question of legitimacy is addressed in a clear-eyed, secular fashion, away from the growing threat of clashing right wings and religious violence. Hertzberg calls us to go back to the future, to the original idea behind the founding of Israel -- that a people persecuted, marginalized, and murdered under state sanction need a safe land, a place to be independent and free. Between the growing religiously motivated blindness of the right wing (Arab, Jewish, and American Christian), and the one-sided blindness of the Western liberal intelligentsia, it has become difficult to see the future. Hertzberg calls on the United States to use its power and influence to help recover the original Zionist intent and settle the questions of legitimacy and coexistence for both Israelis and Palestinians. During his entire career, Hertzberg has been at once supportive of the right to existence of the state of Israel but also a fierce critic of some of its policies -- particularly the abuse of religious sentiments in the social arena. Realistic about the Palestinian injustice that is precipitated, Hertzberg offers a framework for a hopeful solution in a post-religious Zionist realpolitik.
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( Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, ...)
Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned not as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution, but within the Enlightenment and Revolution themselves." He finds that modern anti-Semitism owes less to Christian theological mentality than to doctrinaire libertarianism of figures such as Voltaire, d'Holbach, Diderot, and Marat.
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( Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thoug...)
Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thought: from Zionism in America to God and the Holocaust, from Christian-Jewish relations to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hertzberg also analyzes such noted leaders and personalities as Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Pope John Paul II.
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(A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zion...)
A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max Nordau, Mordecai Kaplan, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion.
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Hertzberg, Arthur was born on June 9, 1921 in Lubaczow, Poland. Son of Zvi Elimelech and Nehamah (Alstadt) Hertzberg.
AB, Johns Hopkins University, 1940. MHL, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1966.
Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette College, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Baltimore Hebrew College, 1974. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Baltimore Hebrew University, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston Hebrew College, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 2000.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), City University of New York Graduate Center, 2001. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 2005.
Rabbi, 1943;
Hillel director, Massachusetts State and Smith College, 1943-1944;
rabbi, Congregation Ahavath Israel of Oak Lane, Philadelphia, 1944-1947;
rabbi, West End Synagogue, Nashville, 1947-1956;
rabbi, Temple Emanu El, Englewood, New Jersey, 1956-1985;
rabbi emeritus, Temple Emanu El, since 1985;
professor religion, Dartmouth College, 1985-1991;
professor emeitus, Dartmouth College, since 1991. Lecturer Columbia University, 1961-1968, adjunct professor of history, 1968-1990. Visiting scholar Mideast Institute, since 1991.
Visiting associate professor Jewish studies Rutgers University, 1966-1968. Lecturer religion Princeton University, 1968-1969. Visiting professor of history Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1970-1971.
Visiting professor Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1989. Visiting scholar St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1989. President Conference Jewish Social Studies, 1967-1972.
Member Executive Committee World Zionist Organisation, 1969-1978, Jewish Agency for Israel, 1969-1971, Board of Governors, 1971-1978. President American Jewish Congress, 1972-1978, American Jewish Policy Foundation, since 1978. Vice president World Jewish Congress, 1975-1991, co-chairman advisory county, since 1991.
Visiting professor humanities New York University, since 1991.
(A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zion...)
( Internationally known historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzb...)
( Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, ...)
( Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, ...)
( Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thoug...)
( A controversial examination of the Jewish ''success sto...)
(A controversial examination of the Jewish success story i...)
(Jews : The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur He...)
(1979 Schocken Books Publishing; Hardcover)
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Vice president of the board directors Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1965-1998. Served First lieutenant, chaplain United States Air Force, 1951-1953.
Married Phyllis Cannon, March 19, 1950. Children: Linda, Susan.