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  • Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism
    David Aberbach
    This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. ...
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    79,45 €

  • The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism
    David Aberbach
    In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages. ...
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    76,89 €

  • The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas
    David Aberbach
    Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. ...
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    80,19 €

  • National Poetry, Empires and War
    David Aberbach
    Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ’From humanity via nationality to bestiality’. National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and it...
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    52,32 €

  • Literature and Poverty
    David Aberbach
    Literature and Poverty offers a historical overview of how the perception of poverty has transformed over time.  ...
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    77,19 €

  • The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939
    David Aberbach
    This book uses historical, sociological, theological, social-psychological, and especially literary insights to depict various forms of European Jewish patriotism from the French Revolution until the Holocaust, combining scrutiny of long-term socio-historical and religious forces with more recent factors deriving from the rise of secular enlightenment, emancipation and national...
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    96,94 €

  • Understanding Contemporary American Conservatism
    Joel D. Aberbach
    Contemporary American conservatism - a mélange of ideas, people, and organizations - is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unable to agree about its essential meaning. Yet the conservative movement is well financed, exerts strong influence in the Republican Party, inspires followers throughout the land, and has spawned a network of think tanks and media outl...
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    95,33 €

  • Jewish Education and History
    Moshe Aberbach / David Aberbach
    Education is at the centre of Jewish life and this book charts that development from the earliest periods through to the present. With a special emphasis on the key Talmudic period the author has carefully scrutinised both Jewish texts as well as the Greco-Roman sources to provide a comprehensive history. ...
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    94,99 €

  • Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy
    David Aberbach
    An exciting, kaleidoscopic presentation of biblical prophecy showing the inextricability of the poetry from the political and military upheavals which occurred at the same time in the ancient Near East. ...
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    88,65 €

  • Jewish Cultural Nationalism
    David Aberbach
    Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, particularly in Tsarist Russia. While the influence of the Hebrew Bible alone on nationalism...
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    88,63 €

  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
    D. Aberbach
    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety...
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    48,09 €

  • Ideas of Richard Wagner
    Alan David Aberbach
    This book presents composer Richard Wagner’s formative ideas in a systematic and coherent manner and examines their development and evolution as reflected in his prose, poetry , letters, and music-dramas. ...
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    132,31 €

  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
    D. Aberbach
    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety...
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    134,32 €

  • In the Web of Politics
    Bert A. Rockman / Joel D. Aberbach
    'Most people think of governmental bureaucracy as a dull subject. Yet for thirty years the American federal executive has been awash in political controversy. From George Wallace's attacks on ''pointy headed bureaucrats,'' to Richard Nixon's ''responsiveness program,'' to the efforts of Al Gore and Bill Clinton to ''reinvent government,'' the people who administer the...
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    34,33 €

  • Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media
    D. Aberbach
    What are the origins of charisma? Are these the same in the various forms of public life, in politics and the media as well as in religion? In this new and radical interpretation of charisma, David Aberbach argues that the basis of charisma in all its forms must be found in the often-obscure symbolic intersection between the inner world of the charismatic and external social an...
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    134,73 €

  • Richard Wagner's Religious Ideas
    Alan D. Aberbach
    Chapter headings include: Early Spiritual Dimensions; Reflection of Mind and Soul (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin); 'Jesus of Nazareth'; Encounters with the Esoteric (Hafiz and The Ring of the Nibelung; Schopenhauer and Tristan and Isolde; The Influence of Meister Eckhart); To Parsifal; Beyond Parsifal. ...
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    88,64 €

  • Keeping a Watchful Eye
    Joel D. Aberbach
    'Congressional oversight activity has increased dramatically since the early 1970s. Congressional committees now spend more of their time holding hearings to review the activities of federal agencies, and committee staff members are busy collecting information about what goes on during program implementation. This book examines the reasons behind the surprising growth of congre...
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    34,07 €