«The Jewish Press» – A Gevalt from the Torah True
An Examination of the Concepts Holocaust and Israel in the American Jewish Newspaper «The Jewish Press»
«The Jewish Press» – A Gevalt from the Torah True
An Examination of the Concepts Holocaust and Israel in the American Jewish Newspaper «The Jewish Press»
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Publisher: Peter Lang AG
ISBN: 9783631664513
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 26/05/2015
Width: 14.8 cm
Height: 21 cm
The Jewish Press’ purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper’s ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.
Contents: Jewish Orthodoxy – American Jewry – Holocaust – Rabbi Meir Kahane – Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis – Religious Radicalism – Fundamentalism – Religous Zionism – Ideology – Newspapers – The Trial of Adolf Eichmann – The Camp David Accord – The Oslo Accord – The murder of Yitzhak Rabin – The Six-Day War – Women in Green – Ruth and Nadia Matar.
