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The Window Dressers: The Signatories of Israel’s Proclamation of Independence |
| Issue: 2015, Volume 48, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Boycotts and Divestment|Courts|History |
| Author: Pappe, Ilan |
| Issue Description: Pappe, an Israeli historian, taught at the University of Haifa, but in 2008 his endorsement of the boycott of Israeli universities led to calls for his resignation. He left to teach at Exeter University in England, where he directs the European Center for Palestine Studies. He addresses the question of whether Israel can be both Jewish and democratic, and goes back for the answer to 1948, David Ben-Gurion and the signers of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. |
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A Special Kind of Exile |
| Issue: 2015, Volume 48, Issue 4 |
| Subject: Anti-Semitism|Civil Rights |
| Author: Rothchild, Alice, M.D. |
| Issue Description: The author begins with these words: “I was once on track to be a nice Jewish girl, growing up in the small New England town of Sharon, Massachusetts, with liberal minded parents who fled the narrow confines of shetl Brooklyn for the dreams of 1950s exurbia, a sparkling lake, and a moderately out-of-tune though touchingly aspirational civic orchestra. I played the cymbals, perhaps a warning of crashes to come. |
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In Search of Grace Halsell |
| Issue: 2014, Volume 47, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Anti-Semitism|Christianity|Church Activism|Civil Rights |
| Author: Kelley, Robin D. G. |
| Issue Description: Grace Halsell was the author of the 1982 book “Journey to Jerusalem.” As it turned out, it would be a journey that she would travel up until her death in 2000. Robin Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A., traces that journey and, in so doing, embarks on a journey of his own. |
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