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In early February 1949, American Jewry's most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), had summarily resigned from all his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. During the second half of the 1940s, Silver was the most outspoken proponent of the founding of a sovereign Jewish state. He was the most instrumental American Jewish leader in the political struggle that led to the foundation of the State of Israel. Paradoxically, this historic victory also heralded Silver's personal defeat.Soon after Israel's declaration of independence, Silver and many of his American Zionist colleagues were relegated to the sidelines of the Zionist movement. Almost overnight, the influential leader-one who had been admired and feared by supporters and opponents-was stripped of his power within both the Zionist and the American Jewish arenas.Shiff's book discerns the various aspects of the striking turnabout in Silver's political fate, describing the personal tragic story of a leader who was defeated by his own victory and the much broader intra-Zionist battle that erupted in full force immediately after the founding of Israel. Drawing extensively on Silver's own archival material, Shiff presents an enlightening portrait of a critical episode in Jewish history. This book is highly relevant for anyone who attempts to understand the complex homeland-diaspora relations between Israel and American Jewry.

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This volume collects several articles by scholar Uri Zur on various areas in the field of Jewish studies. Topics discussed include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view, the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective, the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view, and matters of halakha and halakhic rules. The author also examines contemporary topics such as modern Judaism in Israel and peacemaking efforts grounded in the Pentateuch and Jewish tradition.

Aramaic. --- Biblical criticism. --- Biblical interpretation. --- Biblical translation. --- Gemara. --- Hebrew. --- Hillel. --- Israel. --- Jewish law. --- Jewish studies. --- Jewish tradition. --- Judaism. --- Modern Orthodox Judaism. --- Pentateuch. --- Talmud Bavli;Eruvin;criticism. --- Talmud. --- ancient texts. --- contemporary Judaism. --- form-stylistic design. --- halakha. --- interpretation. --- linguistics. --- peace. --- peacemaking. --- rabbinic literature. --- redaction. --- sugyot. --- tannaitic text. --- traditional Jews. --- tripartite structure. --- RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud. --- Talmud. Eruvin --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Eruvin. --- Talmud Bavli. --- criticism. --- ʻErubin (Talmud) --- Eruvin (Talmud)

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What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual.Through examinations of the computational life sciences, marine biology, astrobiology, acoustics, and more, Helmreich follows scientists to the limits of these categories. Along the way, he offers critical accounts of such other-than-human entities as digital life forms, microbes, coral reefs, whales, seawater, extraterrestrials, tsunamis, seashells, and bionic cochlea. He develops a new notion of "sounding"-as investigating, fathoming, listening-to describe the form of inquiry appropriate for tracking meanings and practices of the biological, aquatic, and sonic in a time of global change and climate crisis.Sounding the Limits of Life shows that life, water, and sound no longer mean what they once did, and that what count as their essential natures are under dynamic revision.

Physical anthropology. --- Human biology. --- Life sciences. --- Ethnology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Biology --- Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Ethnology --- 781.1 --- 7.01 --- Sound studies --- Antropologie --- Geluidskunst --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Artificial Life. --- Century's End. --- Charles Sanders Peirce. --- Cold War. --- DNA. --- Deaf studies. --- Donna Haraway. --- Earth. --- Florian Hecker. --- Google Earth. --- Google Ocean. --- Hillel Schwartz. --- India. --- Indian Ocean tsunami. --- Peter Galison. --- Raymond Williams. --- Rudolph Bodmer. --- Satish Singh. --- The Culture of the Copy. --- abductive reasoning. --- analog whale. --- anthropology. --- aquatic. --- artificial life form. --- astrobiology. --- auditory chimeras. --- auditory chimerism. --- biological. --- biology. --- chimeric composition. --- chimeric listening. --- cognition. --- computational life sciences. --- computer simulations. --- coral reef science. --- coral reefs. --- culture. --- cyborg sound. --- deaf futurists. --- deafness. --- deductive reasoning. --- digital life forms. --- digital media. --- digital whale. --- ethno-conchology. --- experimental music. --- extraterrestrial intelligence. --- extraterrestrial life. --- feminist science studies. --- fiberglass whale. --- genealogies. --- geological time. --- global ocean. --- global warming. --- globalization. --- hearing. --- human microbiome. --- icons. --- indexes. --- inductive reasoning. --- knowledge. --- life form. --- life. --- limit biologies. --- listening. --- marine biology. --- marine microbiology. --- microbes. --- microbial life. --- migration. --- modernism. --- modernity. --- natural philosophers. --- nature. --- ocean time. --- ocean. --- oceanization. --- oceanographic conference. --- popular science. --- race. --- scientific research. --- scientists. --- sea lions. --- seashell sound. --- seashells. --- seawater. --- sex. --- signification. --- silence. --- simulated whale. --- social theory. --- sonic. --- sound recordings. --- sound studies. --- sound. --- species. --- speech. --- symbols. --- theory machine. --- theory. --- time. --- underwater archaeology. --- underwater music. --- water. --- whale fall. --- whales.