Recent Attacks on Orthodox Jews Have Many Antecedents
From malicious press coverage to statements by Mayor Bloomberg to low-grade violence.
January 2, 2020
A seamless new scripture on Jewish politics?
In their series The Jewish Political Tradition—the third of a projected four volumes has recently appeared—Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Noam Zohar present primary sources as well as original essays covering the entirety of Jewish history from the Bible to the present day. Elisheva Carlebach, in her review, points to some problems with the project:
From malicious press coverage to statements by Mayor Bloomberg to low-grade violence.
The consequences of inaction.
The historian as moralist.
A seamless new scripture on Jewish politics?
From Barry Goldwater’s second cousin to the Park Slope Jewish center.
In their series The Jewish Political Tradition—the third of a projected four volumes has recently appeared—Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Noam Zohar present primary sources as well as original essays covering the entirety of Jewish history from the Bible to the present day. Elisheva Carlebach, in her review, points to some problems with the project:
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