Wrestling with an angel [[electronic resource] ] : power, morality, and jewish identity / / Ehud Luz ; translated from the Hebrew by Michael Swirsy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451782703321
• Autore: Luz Ehud
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-281-73010-6; 9786611730109; 0-300-12929-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SwirskyMichael
• Disciplina: 296.3/6
• Soggetti: Jews - Identity; Zionism and Judaism; Jewish ethics; Power (Social sciences) - Moral and ethical aspects; Sovereignty - Moral and ethical aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-338) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Power, Freedom, and Political Independence in Jewish Thought -- 2. Shame, Guilt, and Suffering in Jewish Culture until Modern Times -- 3. The Shame of Exile and the Zionist Recovery of Jewish Dignity -- 4. ''The Remnant of Israel'' -- 5. The Wager in Greenberg's The Ways of the River -- 6. Messianism and Realism -- 7. Criticism of the Idea of Sovereignty in Non-Zionist Thought -- 8. Sovereignty and Jewish Commitment after the Holocaust in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim, George Steiner, and Irving Greenberg -- 9. Sovereignty and Power in Zionist Debate during the Mandate Period -- 10. Reacting to Arab Terror -- 11. Halakha and Morality in Religious Zionism after the Six-Day War -- 12. Persecuted or Persecutor? -- 13. Challenging the Zionist Ethos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By regaining for the Jewish people the capacity to deploy force, Zionism posed moral dilemmas for the Jews that for many generations, living in ; exile, they had not had to confront. The return to full political life and the use of military force involved a profound revolution in the Jewish identity and aroused deep and painful misgivings. This thought-provoking book examines how the forging of a new moral stance on the use of force has affected Jewish identity in the Land of Israel and throughout the world. Drawing on historiography, philosophy, social commentary, ideological tracts, and belles lettres, Ehud Luz explores the ways that Zionist attitudes toward sovereignty were shaped by their Judaic heritage, in particular the prophetic literature and the halakhic (legal) tradition, which stressed the sanctity of human life and the strict prohibition against the shedding of innocent blood. Luz argues that despite secularization, Jewish tradition continues to influence the political life and national ethos of the Jews, and that the Jewish religious tradition is an important, sometimes even decisive factor in the way that political and cultural issues in Israel are resolved.

Fourth Granada lectures in computational physics : proceedings of the 4th Granada Seminar on Computational Physics held at Granada, Spain, 9-14 September 1996 / / edited by Pedro L. Garrido, Joacquín Marro

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466807803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer, , [1997]; ©1997
• ISBN: 3-662-14148-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1997.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 322 p. 66 illus.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 493
• Disciplina: 530.0113
• Soggetti: Physics - Data processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A variational approach to exciton-phonon coupling -- The power of cooperation -- Microscopic computer simulation of fluids -- Nonequilibrium potential in reaction-diffusion systems -- An introduction to the mathematical theory of neural networks -- The statistical mechanics of absorbing states -- On the self-organization of ; migrating individuals -- Recent progress in the study of irreversible transitions in reaction systems -- Critical behavior of an evolution model -- Simulation of phase behavior of fluids in gels -- Mesoscopic descriptions of fluids -- Description of growth models with density equations -- Langevin approach to synthetic turbulence and applications -- Irreversible adsorption of colloidal particles -- Probability distribution function for the random sequential adsorption of aligned and unaligned hard-squares -- Resonance phenomena induced by correlated parametric noise -- Magnetic relaxation via competing dynamics -- Atomic dynamics in liquid alkali metals. A theoretical study -- Electronic structure of delta-doped quantum well as a function of temperature -- Neural networks with fluctuating synapses -- Local field distribution in attractor neural networks: Effect of the stimulus -- A field theoretical study of a lattice gas in two planes -- A regularization of the nonstationary two-body problem under the Maneff perturbing potential -- Pattern formation in catalytic processes: Phase-field model.
• Sommario/riassunto: The methods developed to deal with the computational aspects of physi­ cal problems are useful in an increasing number of situations, from chem­ istry, biology and geology to engineering, communications and economics. In fact, computational physics has evolved into a trans-disciplinary field now concerned with the creative use of computers in scientific research. More­ over, computational methods often help students to develop a deeper under­ standing of key concepts, and enhance their problem-solving abilities. There­ fore, computational physics is recognized as having an important educational value, and educators face the task of outlining appropriate curricula to take advantage of these unique features. This is an important motivation for the publication of the contents of the Seminar on Computational Physics which is held in Granada every two years. The seminar aims at bringing together small groups of students and active researchers on different aspects of computational physics. It is part of the doctoral programme of the University of Granada. The proceedings of the previous editions were published as II Granada Lectures in Computational Physics (World Scientific, Singapore 1993) and Third Granada Lectures in Computational Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 448, Springer, Berlin 1995) by the same editors. The present book contains the invited lecture notes and a very brief account of contributions by participants at the 4th Granada Seminar on Computational Physics (Granada, Spain, 9-14 September 1996).