An analysis of the intertwining tales of Elijah and Ahab--mercurial prophet and Machiavellian king--this book is an accessible treatment of one of the most dramatic and well-known episodes in the Bible. In contrast to the popular image of Elijah as a courageous wonder-worker who calls down fire from heaven and ascends to heaven in a fiery chariot, this book contends that the prophet was a deeply conflicted man, torn between a burning idealism and a deep disillusionment over his failure to achieve his ideals. Despite his profound sense of failure, Elijah's struggle against the paganizing regime of King Ahab and his queen, Jezebel, managed to save monotheism from eclipse, and in so doing alter the course of human history. This work further proposes that the tale presented by the Bible is more than an account of an ancient battle between two historic figures: it is a paradigm of the struggle between the ideals of human dignity and justice, and the alternative of expediency in the pursuit of power, a conflict that pervades human life to this very day.

A comprehensive, well-documented genealogy of the descendants of Gerrit, Lambert, and Elias Dorland, early settlers of New Netherland/New York. In addition to the male-lines, descendants of daughters are traced, in some cases for many generations. These families migrated early in large numbers to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, California and Oregon, as well as Canada. Many errors in earlier accounts of the Dorlands are corrected.

Bertha Pappenheim became a legend twice: first, in Vienna, under the pseudonym 'Anna O', when she cured herself of hysterical symptoms by telling fairy tales which she termed 'the talking cure', upon which Sigmund Freud based his theory of psychoanalysis; and then in Germany, as the founder of the first Jewish feminist movement.

Contains a combination of articles published previously, short chapters on Russian and Soviet Jewry, and texts of documents interspersed throughout the book. The history of the Jews in the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union has been permeated with antisemitism. Surveys the complicated, sometimes tragic relations of Russian and Soviet Jewry with the authorities and administrations. The emphasis, however, is on the present state of affairs. Examines the development of the communist viewpoint on Jews from Marx to Gorbachev; the changing Soviet attitude toward Zionism and the State of Israel; and the problems of Jewish emigration from the USSR and the Jewish aspect of the human rights problem. Analyzes specific aspects of the Jewish situation in each of the republics. Pp. 578-650 contain documents.

American Jewry. They analyze the changing position of Jews throughout the centuries, contrasting the experience of Jews in Islamic lands and those in Christian Europe. Topics covered in individual chapters include the achievement of full rights which allowed Jews to move into the mainstream of society; the roots and history of anti-Semitism and the effects it had on Jews of different countries; the history of East European Jewry, as well as the troubled history of.