Dov waxman biography of williams

  • Dov Waxman argues that Israel is fast becoming a source of disunity for American Jewry, and that a new era of American Jewish conflict over Israel is replacing.
  • Dov Waxman is professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University.
  • Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the director of the.

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    Review of Dov Waxman Trouble in the Tribe - Times Higher Education

    BOOKS Shame about the fantasies Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel By Dov Waxman Princeton University Press, pp, £ ISBN Published 4 May A merican Jews have an active fantasy life – at least, according to Dov Waxman’s Trouble in the Tribe, when it comes to Israel. While the old “Jewish question” revolved around Jewish statelessness, the contemporary parallel is the “Israel question”, revolving around Jewish statehood. Europeans of the 19th century focused on “the imaginary Jew”; for contemporary Americans, notwithstanding Israeli independence in , Israel remains the imaginary homeland, the preeminent, however contested, Jewish symbol. In Dov Waxman’s detailed and meticulously balanced account, Israel no längre breeds consensus among the “tribe”, but dissent (even disunity), with competing ima

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    Public Talks

    Jan 07, - Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
    Lakin Lecture at the Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center.
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    Nov 22, - Conversations about Israel-Palestine: How Did Israel Get Here?
    Boston University's Institute on Culture Religion and World Affairs (CURA)
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    Sep 07, - Why We Argue About Antisemitism Today
    USC Shoah Foundation
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    Apr 19, - The Judicial coup and West Bank Annexation
    Canadian Friends of Peace Now
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    Nov 13, - Diaspora Jewry: Past &#; Present

    My conversation with Professor Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, about the changing relationship between Diaspora Jews and Israel. This conversation was hosted by Holy Blossom Temple, in York, Canada, on November 12, Video  

    Nov 09, - American Jews and the Future of US Support for Israel
    Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Penn

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    Some Israelis say their country has the choice of being a Jewish state or a state of its citizens. Peleg and Waxman’s comprehensive, earnest book shows this is not true, that Israel must be the latter and can be, with intelligent reforms, the former. This is not a challenge for after a peace process succeeds. For what, the book shows, is democracy but a peace process without end?

    - BERNARD AVISHAI
    AUTHOR OF THE HEBREW REPUBLIC

    Trouble in the Tribe is an outstanding book. Waxman’s judgments are fair, judicious, and balanced

    - THEODORE SASSON
    AUTHOR OF THE NEW AMERICAN ZIONISM

    This is an extremely important book that will have profound consequences. When puzzled friends ask me why the American Jewish community is now so divided over Israel, this is the book I will recommend.

    - KENNETH D. WALD
    COAUTHOR OF RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES

    Good books, Orwell once wrote, set your scattered thoughts in order–in a way, tell you what you alread