Jewish studies in violence : a collection of essays / edited by Roberta Rosenberg Farber, Simcha Fishbane.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Farber, Roberta Rosenberg, 1944-, Fishbane, Simcha
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.
Series:	Studies in Judaism.
Subjects:	Violence > Religious aspects > Judaism. Good and evil > Religious aspects > Judaism. Marital violence > Religious aspects > Judaism. Antisemitism > Great Britain > History. Antisemitism. Jews > Violence against. Domestic relations (Jewish law) Jews > Québec (Province) > Montréal. World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Jewish. Justice, Administration of (Jewish law) September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Religious aspects > Judaism. Religious Zionists.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. The transformation of violent experiences : a psychological perspective / Don J. Brand
2. Jewish religious communities and wife abuse / Roberta Rosenberg Farber
3. The treatment of violence and extra-judicial exercise of law and justice in Jewish law / Chaim Povarsky
4. Jewish violence in antiquity : three dimensions / Meir Bar-Ilan
5. Legitimate violence in formative Judaism / Jacob Neusner
6. "Mercy is vouchsafed from Heaven" : Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim, sections 560 and 576-8 / Simcha Fishbane
7. Violence as a factor in the communal life of the Montreal Jewish community in the early twentieth century / Ira Robinson
8. Anglo-Jewry and military conscription during the Great War / Geoffrey Alderman
9. Novel anti-semitisms : vampiric reflections of the Jew Britain, 1875-1914 / Sara Libby Robinson
10. The personification of excess : antisemitism and the wages of alienation / Mark P. Worell
11. Ploughshares into swords : contemporary religious Zionists and moral constraints / Yitzchak Blau
12, "From the depths I have called to you" : Jewish reflections on September 11th and contemporary terrorism / David Shatz
13. Is there a "Halakhic" response to the problem of evil? / Moshe Sokol.

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