In debate with Menachem Begin; in debate with Israel; in defence of political Zionism; in defence of cultural Zionism; contemplating America without illusions; in debate with American Jews; in debate with Christianity and Christians; the Jewishness of modern Jews; the Holocaust - in debate with man and God.
Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thought: from Zionism in America to God and the Holocaust, from Christian-Jewish relations to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hertzberg also analyzes such noted leaders and personalities as Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Pope John Paul II.
Arthur Hertzberg, professor of Jewish studies at New York University, is the author of numerous books, includingThe Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader andThe Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History (Columbia).
[Hertzberg] is passionate and provocative, stimulating and stirring.
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