Autumn 5765 / 2004, no. 18From the Editors:Breach of FaithBy David Hazony Essays:Ecclesiastes: Fleeting and TimelessBy Ethan Dor-Shav Solomon’s confrontation with mortality. Snow White, the Ambassador, and the Aesthetics of Death By Daniel A. Doneson Art in the age of terror. Foundations of a Jewish Economic Theory By Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz Wealth, charity, and man’s quest for the divine. In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism By Alain Finkielkraut Haunted by the Holocaust, Europeans focus the blame on a familiar target. Reviews:Revel’s CauseReviewed by Claire Berlinski Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel Old Whine Reviewed by Stephen C. Pinson Art: A New History by Paul Johnson Were the Sephardim Religious? Reviewed by Avi Picard Forbidden Reminiscences: A Collection of Essays by Ella Shohat Lax Americana Reviewed by Liel Leibovitz Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson Correspondence:Soviet Jewry, Eliezer Berkovits, the Jews’ right to statehood and more. |
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The Jews’ Right To Statehood: A DefenseA new look at Zionism from the perspective of universal rights. |
Unsettling |
Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership. |
God's Alliance with ManBy adopting the features of ancient treaties, the Bible effected a revolution in the way we relate to God and to each other. |
Lawrence of JudeaThe champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism. |