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Michael Barnett, “The Star and the Stripes” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Michael Barnett, “The Star and the Stripes” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews (Princeton University Press, 2016), Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University, explores the tension American Jews have felt between cosmopolitanism and tribalism in their approach to global affairs. Barnett explains how American Jews’ desire for inclusiveness and group survival forms a political theology of prophetic Judaism, which has guided the foreign policies of American Jews for over a century.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jun 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917” (Cambridge UP, 2008): Every Jew knows the story. The evil tsarist authorities ride into the Shtetl. They demand a levy of young men for the army. Mothers’ weep. Fathers’ sigh. The community mourns the loss of its young. It’s a good story, and some of it’s even true. by New Books in Jewish Studies