«The Jewish Press» - A Gevalt from the Torah True: An Examination of the Concepts Holocaust and Israel in the American Jewish Newspaper «The Jewish Press»

by Sahra L. Lindeberg

Overview

The book is a study of a Jewish Orthodox newspaper from New York. Reading this paper over a 40-year period makes for a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. The Orthodox ideology of The Jewish Press is a result of hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about defining how to be Jewish in the modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631664513
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	05/26/2015
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sahra L. Lindeberg holds a BA and MA in Science of Religion from Aarhus University Denmark and studied three years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After earning her PhD, she taught Jewish Studies at Syddansk University.

Table of Contents

Contents: Jewish Orthodoxy – American Jewry – Holocaust – Rabbi Meir Kahane – Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis – Religious Radicalism – Fundamentalism – Religous Zionism – Ideology – Newspapers – The Trial of Adolf Eichmann – The Camp David Accord – The Oslo Accord – The murder of Yitzhak Rabin – The Six-Day War – Women in Green – Ruth and Nadia Matar.

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