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These essays demonstrate that American political culture was fashioned in a dialogue between Federalists and Jeffersonians. They portray an active Federalist coalition that offered a vibrant intellectual and political alternative throughout the era of the early republic. Cutting across boundaries of region, culture, race, gender, and class, Federalists struggled with the problems of nation building, national identity, and economic development.

In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S....

The book deals with the stories of a few dozen Jews, Zionists, politicians, writers, poets, and public activists who passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their death. Only later, in an act of repair, their remains were sent to be buried in the sacred Zionist soil. Their graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel s symbolic landscape.

Rabbi Doron Perez has authored a powerful and passionate call for civility and unity within the Jewish community.… He makes a compelling case for the central role the State of Israel can play and, in particular, the Mizrachi movement which he heads with such distinction can – and must – play in assuring the continued flourishing of the Jewish people.… Read
this book carefully and be inspired to do your share.
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University

The success and sustainability of the Jewish People is...

»Vielleicht sind wir schon morgen nicht mehr da.«

Lizzie Doron hat ihr Leben lang gekämpft - für eine Heimat ohne Verfolgung, für Frieden mit den palästinensischen Nachbarn, für Freiheit und Demokratie. Dann kam der 7. Oktober. Während in Tel Aviv Sirenen heulten, führte die israelische Regierung einen Krieg, der noch mehr Menschen tötete und keine zurückbrachte.

Inzwischen sind über anderthalb Jahre vergangen. Auf das Grauen der Kriegsmonate folgte ein brüchiger Waffenstillstand. Gibt es eine Zukunft, an die man heute noch glauben kann? In einer...