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  • The Intellectual Origins of Modernity

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Jacqueline Kahanoff

    A Levantine Woman

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Perspectives on Israel Studies
    Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of Levantine, Mediterranean, and transnational culture. Growing up Jewish in cosmopolitan Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s, Jacqueline Kahanoff experienced a bustling Middle East enriched by diverse languages, ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • The Shaping of Israeli Identity

    Myth, Memory and Trauma

    Edited by Robert Wistrich, David Ohana ...
    Series series Israeli History, Politics and Society
    A dozen essays document the evolution of national myths in Israel as the heroic figures and events of independence and survival transmute into blind fanaticism, great-power manipulation, and traditional colonialism and genocide. Without passing any judgement on the changes, they delve into the meani ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Political Theologies in the Holy Land

    Israeli Messianism and its Critics

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity.The author explores key issues such as:the current presence of messianism in the Israeli public sphere and the debates ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Fascist Temptation

    Creating a Political Community of Experience

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book posits a new theory of fascism as a radical political community of experience.The author engages with a range of thinkers both critical of and inspiring fascism including Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of political thought, fascism and Nazism. ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland

    The Concept of Moledet

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland: from the examination of the status of the Israeli homeland by such known sociologist as Michael Feige, to ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Nationalizing Judaism

    Zionism as a Theological Ideology

    by David Ohana, Ari Barell, Michael Feige ...
    This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical tension between Judaism and Zionism. How has Zionism molded perceptions and images that were formed in the Jewish past, and to what extent were these Jewish themes reflected, modified, and crystallized in the national culture of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology

    by David Ohana ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology is the first book to explore the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on the formation of Jewish political theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish thinkers grappled with Nietzsche’s powerful ideas about politics, morality, and religion in the process of forging a new and modern Jewish culture. The ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Origins of Israeli Mythology

    Neither Canaanites Nor Crusaders

    Translated by David Maisel ...
    by David Ohana ...
    It is claimed that Zionism as a meta-narrative has been formed through contradiction to two alternative models, the Canaanite and crusader narratives. These narratives are the most daring and heretical assaults on Israeli-Jewish identity. The Israelis, according to the Canaanite narrative, are from this place and belong only here; according to the crusader narrative, they are from another place ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • The Devil That Never Dies

    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD