Israel, the Ever-dying People, and Other Essays

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1986 - 247 páginas
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 EverDying People
51
The End and the Endless
62
On the Concept of Galut
94
The Right to Be Different
116
On Jewish Learning
128
Two That Are One
145
One Continuity or Two?
160
The People the State
180
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
238
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