1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452734903321

Titolo

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought [[electronic resource] ] : writings on identity, politics, and culture, 1893-1958 / / edited by Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-38495-1

1-61168-386-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series

Altri autori (Persone)

BeharMoshe

Ben-Dor BeniteZvi

Disciplina

305.892/4

Soggetti

Jews - Middle East - Identity

Arabs - Middle East - Ethnic identity

Jews - Middle East - Intellectual life - 20th century

Arabs - Middle East - Intellectual life - 20th century

Jewish nationalism - Middle East

Arab nationalism - Middle East

Zionism - Palestine - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editors' Note; Introduction: Mizrahi and Modern Middle Eastern Thought: Present and Past; Avraham Elmaleh; 1 | East and West; Ya'qub Sannu'; 2 | Some Teachings of the Koran; 3 | Transvaal's Exemplary Rebels; 4 | The Koran; 5 | Ottoman Imperial Schools; 6 | My Last Dream; 7 | John Bull and the Egyptian Student; 8 | My Poor Eyes; 9 | Letter to Philip Tarrazi; Esther Azhari Moyal; 10 | Address at the American College for Girls in Beirut; 11 | Our Renaissance; Murād Farag; 12 | The War for Our Nation; Nissim Ya'acov Malul

13 | Our Status in the Country, or the Question of Learning ArabicBen-



Zion Meir Hai Uziel; 14 | Angels of Peace; 15 | A Speech in the Celebration of My Jubilee; Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pacha; 16 | On Solidarity and on Diversity; Hayyim Ben-Kiki; 17 | European Culture in the East; 18 | On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land; Menahem Salih Daniel; 19 | Letter to Chayyim Weizmann; David Avisar; 20 | A Proposal Concerning the Question of Understanding and Reaching an Agreement with the Arabs of the Land of Israel; Elie (Eliyahu) Eliachar

21 | A Jew of Palestine before the Royal Commission22 | Jews and Arabs; Ibrahim al-Kabir; 23 | Evidence Given to Palestine's Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Which Visited Baghdad; Yusuf Harun Zilkha and Sasson Shalom Dallal; 24 | Zionism against Arabs and Jews; 25 | Last Letter; Marsil Shirizi; 26 | Anti-Zionism for the Sake of Jews and the Sake of Egypt; Henri Curiel; 27 | Egyptian Communists and the Jewish Question; 28 | What Ought to Be the First Official Message from the DMNL to the Israeli Communist Party?; 29 | Some Clarifications on "Social Democracy"; Sami Michael

30 | The Newly Arrived Men of LettersJacqueline Shohet Kahanoff; 31 | Bridge to the Oriental Immigrants; David Sitton; 32 | A Call for Deepening "The Mizrahi Consciousness" among Us; Avraham Abbas; 33 | From Ingathering to Integration: The Communal Problem in Israel; Publication Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136071903321

Autore

Kastenberg Joshua E. <1967->

Titolo

A confederate in congress : the Civil War treason trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris / / Joshua E. Kastenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4766-2655-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages)

Disciplina

345.73/0231

Soggetti

Trials (Treason) - Washington (D.C.)

Military courts - Washington (D.C.)

Slavery - Law and legislation - Maryland, Southern - History

Secession - Maryland - History

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The origins of a Maryland secessionist -- 2. Harris and secession, 1861/1863 -- 3. Congress and the war -- 4." A damning speech," the roots of a trial -- 5. The Democratic Party Convention of 1864 -- 6. The military prosecution of a Congressman -- 7. Aftermath of the trial, 1865/1892.

Sommario/riassunto

"This first ever book-length analysis of the unusual trial examines the prevailing opinions in Southern Maryland and in the War Department regarding slavery, treason and the Constitution's guarantee of property rights and freedom of speech"--