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Rivkah Duker Fishman
Publications by Rivkah Duker Fishman
Rivkah Fishman-Duker on A Murder among Friends: Uri Avnery – A Story of Political Warfare by Amnon Lord
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) Who Is Uri Avnery? Uri Avnery, octogenarian icon of Israel’s cultural and political left, is indeed a worthy subject of a serious study. Better known in Europe than in the United States, Avnery ... Read More »
Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips
Reason, the West, the Jews, and Their Defamers
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, by Melanie Phillips, Encounter Books, 2010, 457 pp.
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Rivkah Fishman-Duker on How Jewish Is Jewish History?
How Jewish Is Jewish History? by Moshe Rosman, Littman Library
of Jewish Civilization, 2007, 220 pp.
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Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Nazis for Jesus/Jesus for Nazis
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel. Princeton University Press, 2008, 339 pp.
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“Jerusalem: Capital of the Jews”:
The Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman Sources
For ancient Greek and Roman pagan authors, Jerusalem definitely was a Jewish city. This article draws on references to Jerusalem from nearly twenty different sources, dating from the third century BCE to the third century CE, which are included in the late Professor Menahem Stern’s comprehensive anthology, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. An examination of these texts indicates the unanimous agreement that Jerusalem was Jewish by virtue of the fact that its inhabitants were Jews, it Read More »
Rivkah Fishman-Duker on Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, by Martin Goodman
The Challenge of Ancient Judaism
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, by Martin Goodman, London, Penguin Books, 2007, 639 pp.
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Rivkah Duker Fishman on The Oslo Years: A Mother’s Journey
An Underground View of Oslo
The Oslo Years: A Mother’s Journey, by Ellen Horowitz, I.I. Creations (distributed by Gefen Publishing), 2005, 284 pp.
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Rivkah Duker Fishman on The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach
The Worldview of Rabbi Eleazar Schach
The Man of Vision: The Ultra-Orthodox Ideology of Rabbi Shach (Ish Ha-Hashkafah: Ha-Ideologia Ha-Haredit al pi HaRav Shach), by Avishay Ben Haim, Mosaica Publishers, 179 pp. [in Hebrew].
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Perspectives – The Seventh-Century Christian Obsession with the Jews: A Historical Parallel for the Present?
In the seventh century, the Arabs embarked on the conquest of the world in the name of Islam. The Caliphate replaced the Persian Empire and Christian Spain and conquered much of the Byzantine Empire. The latter, however, seemed to ignore the threat of the new invaders and their religion. Instead, the Byzantine political and intellectual elite focused increasingly on the Jews in tracts and legal measures. The situation has certain parallels with the present.
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