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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.

The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato's Politeia, a "site of memory" of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the...

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...

Spätestens seit Hannah Arendts Eichmann-Buch und ihrer Kritik an der Rolle der Judenräte in der Zeit der Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden wird die Frage der Zusammenarbeit von jüdischen Repräsentanten mit dem NS-Regime äußerst kontrovers diskutiert. Wie konnten Menschen gezwungen werden, an ihrer eigenen Vernichtung mitzuwirken?
Wer verstehen will, wie die Judenräte entstanden, muß sich mit den Wiener Verhältnissen auseinandersetzen. In Wien entwickelte und erprobte Eichmann ab 1938 sein »Modell« nationalsozialistischer Judenpolitik. Hier wurde die...

In his new book Doron Mendels addresses the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts. Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts, whilst working to examine four core themes. First, the narrator and his strategies in the historiography of the Hellenistic period. Secondly, Jewish Historical thought in the Hellenistic period and beyond. Thirdly, issues of Hellenization in Palestine - power, honour, gifting, etiquette and sovereignty and their presentation in...