Jews and violence : images, ideologies, realities / edited by Peter Y. Medding.

Papers contributed as a symposium.

At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Includes bibliographical references.

The state and the legitimate use of force and coercion in modern Halakhic thought / Gerald J. Blidstein -- "They fought because they were fighters and they fought because they were Jews" : violence and the construction of modern Jewish identity / Elliott Horowitz -- Jews, violence, and the Russian revolutionary movement / Theodore H. Friedgut -- Speaking of the devil in Yiddish literature / Ruth R. Wisse -- The use of military force in the religious Zionist ideology of Rabbi Yitzhak Ya'akov Reines and his successors / Elie Holzer -- Crime and redemption? : American Jewish gangsters, violence, and the fight against Nazism / Michael Berkowitz -- Reflections on Jewish resistance under the Nazi German occupation / Yisrael Gutman -- Violence in Israeli society : its relation to social stress / Simha F. Landau -- The voice of Jacob and the hands of Esau : verbal and physical violence in Israeli politics, 1977-1984 / Gerald Cromer -- Corporal punishment in Jewish education : a philosophical-educational exploration / Michael Rosenak -- Haredi violence in contemporary Israeli society / Menachem Friedman -- Fighting for Palestine and Crimea : two Jewish friends from Philadelphia during the First World War and the 1920s / Matthew Silver -- Personal accounts of the Holocaust : what can we glean from them? / Robert Rozett -- The slow death of the Oslo process / Gerald Steinberg -- Assimilating, coalescing, and spiritual-seeking : recent trends among American Jews / Stephen Sharot -- The political culture and social posture of American Jews / Eli Lederhendler.