The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies

Personalities, Issues, Events

Hadley Cantril, Edward Alexander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781138536449
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000679762
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Jewish History

This volume deals with the modern fate of the traditional conception of Jews as a covenanted people chosen to receive the Law, whose ultimate purpose is contributing to the universal salvation of mankind. The author shows how, under the influence of liberalism, rationalism, relativism, and other Enlightenment ideologies, this idea was distorted, denied, inverted, yet never entirely obliterated. In his discussions of modern Jewish thinkers and writers and the ideological and political struggles of Zionism and the state of Israel against enemies from without and from within, Alexander shows that the ancient idea of covenant is still alive today, if only in the assumption that Jewish life can lead somewhere so long as Jews remember that it began somewhere. Ranging from literary criticism and the history of ideas to journalism and politics, the book is unified by a point of view unabashedly espousing the Jewish idea and challenging its enemies.

Index

ABC-TV, 123, 124, 134, 137, 139, 149, 219, 22, 223, 224

Abbas, Mohammed, 135

Abu-Hatzeira, Aharon, 192

Achille Lauro, 135

ACLU, 8, 10

Adams, Henry, 35

Adler, Renata, 125

African National Congress, 211, 215

African Solidarity Congresses, 209

Agassi, Meir, 145

Agnon, S.Y., 38, 116, 119

Agudat Yisrael, 146, 193

Aharon, Haim, 203

Aicken, Vic, 219, 243, 248

Akiba, 43–45, 71

Al Ahram, 86

Al-Assad, Hafez, 222

Alexander II (Czar), 155

Alexander, Michael Solomon, 199

Al-Fatah, 160, 247

Ali, Muhammad, 69

Alkalai, Yehudah, 160

Alliance Israelite Universalle, 200

Allon, Yigal, 179, 187

Aloni, Shulamit, 147–48, 179, 208

Alter, Robert, 4, 42, 113

American Friends Service Committee, 105

American Jewish Congress, 195

American Spectator, 225–26

Amery, Jean, 49

Amichai, Yehuda, 116, 119, 156

Amnesty International, 146

Amry, Herbert, 186

Anarchism, 59

Anghelovici, Tereza, 145–48

Anti-Americanism, 79

Anti-Semitism: 59–62, 64, 78, 80–96, 99–105, 153, 155–56, 166; in academe, 32–34, 42, 112–14; of Dr. Thomas Arnold, 31–34; in Europe, 9, 31–34, 99, 165–69, 209; of Karl Marx, 37; in news media, 105–7, 113, 121–40, 217–54; in Russia, 46, 68, 69; of self-hating Jews, 37, 165–72, 215; in USSR, 46, 67–69, 74, 103–4, 107; of Gore Vidal, 80–96

Appelfeld, Aharon, 116, 156

Arab League, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. Personalities
• II. Issues
• III. Events
• Index