Authors: Israel Shahak
ISBN-13: 9780745328416, ISBN-10: 0745328415
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: Second Edition, New Edition
Israel Shahak was a resident of the Warsaw Ghetto and a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. He arrived in Palestine in 1945 and lived there until his death in 2001. He was an outspoken critic of the state of Israel and a human rights activist. He was also the author of the highly acclaimed Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Pluto Press 1999) and Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies (Pluto Press 1997).
A study of Jewish history and religion by retired Israeli professor of organic chemistry. Shahak, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Palestine in 1945, contends that the "racism, discrimination, and xenophobia" prevalent among Jews and directed against non-Jews comes from Judaism. He analyzes the Talmud, Jewish history, and Zionism to make his point.
Subjects the whole history of Orthodoxy ... to a hilarious and scrupulous critique.
Foreword | ||
1 | A Closed Utopia? | 1 |
2 | Prejudice and Prevarication | 14 |
3 | Orthodoxy and Interpretation | 32 |
4 | The Weight of History | 50 |
5 | The Laws against Non-Jews | 75 |
6 | Political Consequences | 99 |
Notes and References | 104 | |
Index | 119 |