Israel, the Ever-dying People, and Other Essays

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1986 - 247 Seiten
Simon Rawidowicz was a strong advocate of the position that as long as the Diaspora existed, it had to develop an ideology of creative survival enabling it to enter into a relationship of equal partnership with the Jewish community of the Land of Israel. Rawidowicz's son has collected his essays and translated them into English.
 

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The People the State
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Excerpts from a Correspondence between David BenGurion and Simon Rawidowicz on the State of Israel the Diaspora and the Unity of the Jewish P...
192
Sanctity Praise and Deprecation
203
Jerusalem and Babylon
227
Only from Zion A Chapter in the Prehistory of Brandeis University
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Urheberrecht

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Seite 32 - We of the United Nations are agreed on certain broad principles in the kind of peace we seek. The Atlantic Charter applies not only to the parts of the world that border the Atlantic but to the whole world; disarmament of aggressors, self-determination of nations and peoples, and the four freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Seite 31 - Jewish people as a whole may take, on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a pride. But in order that this community should have the best prospect of free development and provide a full opportunity for the Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essential that it should know that it is in Palestine as of right 'and not on sufferance.
Seite 117 - There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Seite 25 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Seite 58 - Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Seite 25 - College and was also invited to serve on the "panel" of the School of African and Oriental Studies of the University of London.
Seite 213 - They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them, ' says the LORD 'Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place'
Seite 131 - ... France and the Resistance could not wipe out. Today it is Great Britain that appears to be affected by a profound crisis while the continental nations, at least on the economic plane, have succeeded in adapting themselves to the new world and have attained a growth rate envied by British economists. This is not the place to undertake a detailed analysis of the British crisis, which, it seems to me, is as much moral and social as economic. Great Britain, aside from the irrational and disastrous...
Seite 31 - Palestine as of right and not on sufferance." Rawidowicz gladly accepted the assertion that the Jewish people were in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance.

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