(Ebook) Being Jewish and Doing Justice Bringing Argument to Life 1st Edition by Brian Klug ISBN 978-0853039938 ‎ 0853039933

(Ebook) Being Jewish and Doing Justice Bringing Argument to Life 1st Edition by Brian Klug ISBN 978-0853039938 ‎ 0853039933

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 0853039933

ISBN 13:   978-0853039938

Author:  Brian Klug

Now in paperback, Being Jewish and Doing Justice expands the standard concept of Jewish Studies. The prologue offers a novel reading of the idea of 'the people of God,' placing the people firmly 'in the world.' In this spirit, the book brings argument to bear on a broad range of contemporary moral, social, and political controversies, many of them turning on puzzles about identity. The scope extends from Judaism, Zionism, and anti-Semitism to the language of race, the status of animals, and the rights of the child. Drawing on his training as an academic philosopher, his Jewish education, and his personal experience, author Brian Klug confronts uncomfortable questions with rigor, candor, and humor. And while the chapters are not a series of steps in an overall argument, collectively they develop the title theme: the inner connection between being Jewish and doing justice. Topical and controversial, the issues discussed include: whether anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism * Herzl's Jewish opponents in the East End * if anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are inextricably entangled * what draws America to Israel and what ties Israel to Auschwitz * how the climate of debate about Israel among Jews can be improved * Israel's 'right to exist' * the 'race question' on the UK census form * Arthur Balfour's take on 'the Jewish race' * ethnicity in America * Black-Jewish relations in Chicago * popular attitudes in Britain towards the 'ritual' slaughter of animals * the treatment of animals in the abattoir and laboratory.

Table of contents: 

PART 1. APPROACHES TO ZION

1. A Time to Speak Out

2. The Collective Jew

3. A Plea for Distinctions

4. The New World and the Promised Land

5. Tricks of Memory

6. Anti-Zionism in London's Jewish East End, 1890-1948

7. The Climate of Debate about Israel in the Jewish World

8. On Saying that Israel has a Right to Exist

9. The State of Zionism

10. A Time to Move On

11. Next Year in Hackney

PART 2. ANGLES ON IDENTITY

Introduction

12. The Language of Race

13. The Other Arthur Balfour

14. Old Ghosts in the New World

15. Spring Fever in Chicago

16. Ritual Murmur in Britain

17. The Kiss of Death

18. Salomon's House on the Island of Bensalem

19. In the Shadow of Dr Moreau

20. The Kangaroo's Grasp

21. Science and the Image of God

22. Next Year in Neverland

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