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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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 Lawrence of JudeaThe champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism. |
 The Spectacles of Isaiah BerlinThe twentieth century's greatest liberal was anything but a pluralist |
 Job’s Path to EnlightenmentA new interpretation of the Bible's most enigmatic book. |
 The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look. |
 An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of AntisemitismA prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred. |