[PDF.65ny] What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism

What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism

[PDF.jk30] What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism

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 | #3671340 in Books |  2002-10-08 |  2002-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.22 x1.01 x6.28l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages

 | Religion, Judaism, author of IN the Shadow of the Prophet

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||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Enlightening, annoying, scary.|By algo41|Viorst is deeply troubled by two segments of the Jewish population which have little use for the goals and thinking of the Western enlightenment: the religious - expansionist Zionists, and the ultra-orthodox Haredim. He tries to put these movements into a historical and Biblical context as well as describing them in some detail. It is|From Publishers Weekly|The distinguished Jewish historian Salo Baron once disparaged the "lachrymose theory" of Jewish history because it emphasized tragic events and a sorry trail of tears. What might he have said about Viorst's reading of Jewish history as an

"What shall I do with this people?" was Moses' exasperated question to God in Sinai, and it is posed once more in Milton Viorst's searching account of the crisis in Judaism today. Not since the destruction of the Second Temple, argues Viorst, have Jews displayed such intolerance toward one another or battled so fiercely over ideology. And these battles are not just intellectual exercises; they exact a fearsome price in today's Middle East.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism   |  Milton Viorst. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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