Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 — April 17, 2006), American educator, Rabbi | World Biographical Encyclopedia

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Being Jewish in America - The Modern Experience by Arthur Hertzberg (1979)

(1979 Schocken Books Publishing; Hardcover)

The French Enlightenment And The Jews

Jews. The Essence and Character of People

(Jews : The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur He...)

(The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader) Author: Arthur Hertzberg published on (October, 1997)

The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel & Palestine

( 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.

Being Jewish in America : the Modern Experience / Arthur Hertzberg

Jews: The Essence and Character of a People

Jews: The Essence and Character of a People Paperback April 7, 1999

Zionist Idea a Historical Analysis &

The outbursts that await us,: Three essays on religion and culture in the United States

Jewish Polemics

( Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thoug...)

By Arthur Hertzberg - The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History: 1st (first) Edition

French Enlightenment and the Jews: Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism

The Zionist Idea A Historical Analysis and Reader Edited with an Introduction

(A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zion...)

The Jews in America

( A controversial examination of the Jewish ''success sto...)

The French Enlightenment and the Jews Reprint edition by Hertzberg, Arthur (1990) Paperback

Essays On Jewish Life And Thought By Benammi

((co-editor))

The outbursts that await us, three essays on religion and culture in the United States
The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter : A History (A controversial examination of the Jewish success story i...)
The French Enlightenment and the Jews (Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "moder...)
The French Enlightenment and the Jews by Arthur Hertzberg (1990-10-15) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter : A History by Arthur Hertzberg (1989-11-03) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

Other Work

Encyclopedia Judaica. 16 Volume Set.

((consulting editor) The Encyclopaedia Judaica is an Engl...)