WHAT JERUSALEM MEANS TO US: JEWISH PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS
Jerusalem is a distinctive city for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their adherents. It is equally special for Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, having been their home for decades, if not centuries and millennia.
What Jerusalem Means to Us: Jewish Perspectives and Reflections addresses the intimate and unique connections among Jews, Judaism, and Jerusalem along a variety of dimensions – religious, spiritual, historical, cultural, political, psychological, and social. These are manifested through the perspectives and reflections of sixteen Jewish authors representing different backgrounds. The resultant essays present a rich array of personal and professional transformations, extraordinary love and hope for Jerusalem, as well as an honest appraisal of some of the challenges of daily living.
What Jerusalem Means to Us: Jewish Perspectives and Reflections is published by the Jerusalem Peace Institute, which highlights Jerusalem as humanity’s shared gift governed by two peoples and cherished by three faiths, and its centrality for a just peace. It complements well the successful What Jerusalem Means to Us: Christian Perspectives and Reflections (2018) and What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections (2020), which were published by HCEF.
Edited by:
Dr. Saliba Sarsar
Co-Founder/President, The Jerusalem Peace Institute
Professor of Political Science, Monmouth University
and
Dr. Carole Monica C. Burnett
Co-Chair, HCEF Research & Publication Committee and
Editor of the Church and Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation,
The Catholic University of America Press
Cuprins
Preface………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… vii
Introduction by Saliba Sarsar…………………………………………………………………………………………………… ix
1.Jerusalem: My Favorite City in the World! by Yael S. Aronoff……………………………………………………. 1
2.Next Year in Jerusalem: When Aspiration Meets Reality by Naamah Kelman……………………………… 18
3.What Jerusalem Means to Me by John L. Rosove…………………………………………………………………… 26
4.Jerusalem in My Life by Peretz Rodman………………………………………………………………………………… 37
5.My Love of Jerusalem as a Reform Jew by Laurence P. Malinger……………………………………………… 49
6.Jerusalem, Our Common Mother City by Yehezkel Landau………………………………….. …………………..58
7.On the Heavenly Jerusalem and the Earthly Jerusalem by Ron Kronish ……………………………………..71
8.And All the Nations Shall Flow Unto It by Jonathan Golden………………………………………………………. 83
9.The ‘Abandoned’ Houses of Jerusalem by Tamar Verete-Zahavi ……………………………………………… 97
10.’Go West’: Reflections on the ‘West’ in West Jerusalem by Elan Ezrachi……………………………….. 106
11.O Jerusalem: Reflections of a Liberal Zionist on the Too-Holy City by Ilan Peleg ……………………… 119
12.My Jerusalem-Our Jerusalem by Sharon Rosen ……………………………………………………………….. 135
13.Jerusalem: An Insider/Resident’s and Outsider/Researcher’s Perspectives by Menachem Klein …147
14.Jerusalem: The Cost of Jewish Israeli Dominance by Alice Rothchild …………………………………….. 155
15.My Transformative Journey by Aleen Bayard……………………………………………………………………….. 165
16.My Story: Jerusalem as Source of Lifelong Inspiration and Career Path by Martin J. Raffel……….. 178
About the Contributors……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 191
Appendix I: Jerusalem Peace Institute………………………………………………………………………………………… 201
Despre autor
Dr. Yael S. Aronoff holds the Michael and Elaine Serling and Friends Endowed Chair in Israel Studies and serves as the director of the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University, and a professor of Political Science at James Madison College at Michigan State University. Her primary research and work focus on Israeli politics and foreign policy, Israeli society and culture, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and efforts to resolve it, and Israel’s asymmetric wars. She is particularly interested in peace negotiations and the conditions under which wars end, as well as the means and limits of war. Among Aronoff’s publications are the book, The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard Liners Opt for Peace, and the co-edited book, Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond. Her current book project is titled, The Dilemmas of Asymmetric Conflicts: Navigating Deterrence and Democratic Constraints. Dr. Aronoff has published in Foreign Policy, Israel Studies, Israel Studies Review, and Political Science Quarterly; she is past President of the Association of Israel Studies and has given over 100 public lectures.
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