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More copies of this ISBN:Israel and Palestine - Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Centuryby Marc H Ellis
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:As the world watches with horror the unfolding events in Palestine and Israel, Marc Ellis, a Jewish American scholar, examines what he sees as a crisis point in Jewish identity. In this book, Ellis offers a vision of Judaism that testifies to an ethical life in our era, based on the principles of justice and community upon which the Jewish faith was founded. Only by addressing the way in which those original principles are being squandered by a miltarized state of Israel and a complicit Jewish establishment in America, he argues, can there be hope for peace in the future."Israel and Palestine: Out of the Ashes" is a deeply personal, philosophical account of contemporary Jewish identity. Looking beyond the legacy of the Holocaust and beyond the portrayal of Jews as either victims or persecutors, Ellis forges a new vision of what it means to be Jewish today. Book News Annotation:Ellis (American and Jewish studies, Baylor U.) explores issues of
Jewish history, memory, and theology as they relate to the current
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Philosophical responses to the
Holocaust are identified as currently pointing towards allegiance to
power and the state, but Ellis, a Jewish American, suggests that it
can also be turned towards recognition of the suffering of the
Palestinian people. The prophetic tradition of Judaism is advanced as
a means to recover a Jewish identity that operates with a "tikkun
of ordinary decency" towards the Palestinians. Distributed by Stylus.
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Here, Marc Ellis, a Jewish American scholar, examines what he sees as a crisis point in Jewish identity. In this book, Ellis offers a vision of Judaism that testifies to an ethical life in our era, based on the principles of justice and community upon which the Jewish faith was founded. Synopsis:'[Ellis provides] a vital contribution to solving one of the few remaining intractable problems of our time.' --Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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