More than just a guide to centers of Jewish populations throughout the world, this comprehensive work provides facts about the demography and history of these important communities, as well as a listing and description of community organizations, religious life, local Jewish culture, and educational facilities. Introductory sections include information on the founding of Israel, population statistics, and thoughts on topics ranging from the Diaspora to the founding of the Jewish state.

When Zionists first advocated a national home for the Jewish people, they also propounded a revolution in the values that Jews should live by, a whole new way of thinking about Jewish life and Jewish history. Has this revolution in fact occurred? And what the consequences been for Jews and their neighbors? Especially given the extraordinary circumstances that link the United States and Israel, Americans may find the answers to such questions vexing - but the remarkable work of Avishai Margalit goes far to clarify the issues and enlighten the debate. Over the past two decades, Margalit has written major essays for American readers about the political leaders, cultural crises, and historical background of the contemporary Israeli scene. In Views in Review these essays are brought together with new commentary and observations, and their publication in one volume clearly shows that the whole is much more that the sum of its parts. From Ben Gurion to Netanyahu, from "Israeli kitsch" to the meaning of the Holocaust for "the seventh million," Margalit's work traverses the terrain of Israeli life and history and brings a tragically conflicted country into sharp and memorable focus.

Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too far”: “One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all.”

"These lit-crit essays are at once spoofable and brilliant".-Esquire. "'Trauma TV' is . . . the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written".-Artforum. "Ronell is one of the few critical theorists of talent who can write her way out of the hermeticism typically associated with the deconstructionism of Derrida, Blanchot, Nancy, or Lacoue-Labarthe. She jumps between the vulgate of television talk shows and the high theoretical jargon of the academy with the adroitness of a speed-fiend switchboard operator . . . [She is] the reigning queen of termino-millenarianism".-Poetics Today. Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Ronell examines diverse figures of finitude in our modern world: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, rumor. Her essays address such questions as: How do rumors kill? How has video become the call of conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even when they are not? Is peace possible? Ronell writes to "the community of those who have no community-to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment". Avital Ronell is also the author of The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) and Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is a professor in and chair of the Department of German and a professor of comparative literature at New York University.

Discusses a variety of feminist issues. Ch. 15 (pp. 375-410), "Holocaust Consciousness, " discusses attitudes of American Jews to the Holocaust. Many of them obsess and agonize about it, but do not try to analyze how and why it happened. After the war, American Jews harbored a rescue fantasy, refusing to face the fact that their government, and especially President Roosevelt, had obstructed efforts to save European Jews. From the 1960s, they have blamed their own leaders for inaction. Deplores the fact that the Holocaust is often the focus of Jewish identity in the U.S. Advocates analyzing the causes of the Holocaust and the changing conditions (e.g. economic upheaval, social desperation) that could have allowed a criminal party to attain power. Discusses the rise in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in the 1990s. Claims that the cause of antisemitism lies in the patriarchal nature of society: pogroms and the Holocaust are examples of male violence against powerless humans, the Jews, who are seen as a personification of female values (nonviolence, compassion, altruism, cooperation) and a threat to patriarchal structures. Pp. 249-253 deal with the JAP stereotype.

Some information cannot be contained in ink and blips and must always remain physical. This has been found in science, but also applies to investing, where it provides big advantage to investors who investigate companies physically ("sleuthing.") In this book (a follow up on his first), seasoned investing expert Avner Mandelman, relying on recent findings in AI and the latest Nobel Prize winning research, presents case-studies and sleuthing techniques to help the reader take the money of those who haven't read the book. In these studies, written in an engaging style, you will learn from: Chess-playing computers, how a chess-inspired formula picks the best stocks to sleuth Top intel operatives, how to get informers to open up Top Generals, how to discern winner CEOs from mediocre ones Quantum physicists, how to go beyond public data and create your own Brain and AI scientists, how to access the "dark info" inside your own brain Top athletes and top-gun pilots, how to train to win.

"Born in 1955, Avraham Burg witnessed firsthand many of the most dramatic and critical junctions in Israeli history. Here he chronicles the highs and lows of his country during the last five decades, beginning with the 1967 war, when, as a young boy, his mother brought him back Uzi cartridges from the Kotel, which he incorporated into the Chanukah menorah he made for his home economics class. Burg narrates the misplaced hopes of religious Zionism (informed by his conservative upbringing), Israel's obsession with military might (informed by his own experiences as a paratrooper), the country's democratic aspirations (informed by his tenure in the Knesset) and more. What he delivers, ultimately, is an analysis of the ambitions and failures of Israel and Judaism, from the unique standpoint of his generation--the children of the mythical "founders" who established the state. In Days to Come is Burg's philosophical inquiry into what Jewish-Israeli identity means today if you are personally, ethically, and politically opposed to what your country stands for. With bravery and candor, he urges his countrymen to dare to ask the difficult questions and accept the truth of difficult answers, have the courage to move on from trauma to trust, understand that Jews do not have monopoly over suffering but a responsibility to prevent crimes against humanity, have the will to solve the conflict between Israel and Palestine by adopting new paradigms, be ready to relinquish the privileges given to the Jews and create a shared space with equal rights for every human being, lay the groundwork for a constitutional reality in which every individual--under Israeli sovereignty or responsibility--has equal rights, and build a wall of separation between synagogue and state"--

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MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet," which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He (the captain was always a "he," even when the author was female) was the model and exemplar for society, the man with the right stuff, he who made the tough decisions and enforced discipline?

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A sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century. Startling revelations of forced conversions, mass murder of non-Catholics, Catholic extermination camps, disclosures of Catholic clergy as commanders of concentration camps; documented with names, dates, places, pictures and eyewitness testimony.

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Reproduces and translates from the Russian two booklets in which the 20-year-old later known in the US as Ayn Rand records her admiration for Hollywood movies and stars. Pola Negri, about her favorite actress, was published without byline in 1925. Hollywood: American City of Movies, her description of early Hollywood, was pirated by a Soviet publisher. They were rediscovered separately during the middle 1990s. Accompanying them is a detailed log of the films she watched and a ranking of her favorite actors. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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A rabbi whose faith was challenged by the death of his daughter and who rediscovered his spirituality while gardening discusses the healing benefits of observing nature, citing lessons that can be learned by caring for the land.