| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xlv, 359 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originated out of the McGill International Colloquium on Judaism and Human Rights held April 1974 at McGill University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Contemporary concerns: [1.] Human rights on the international agenda: Issue of human rights / Walter Laqueur -- International human-rights protection: the dream and the deceptions / Rita Hauser -- Majoritarianism at the United Nations and human rights / Leonard Garment -- Significance of the Zionism-as-racism resolution for international human rights / Daniel P. Moynihan -- United Nations and human rights: "alternative approaches" / Sidney Liskofsky -- Human rights: reappraisal and readjustment / Luois Henkin -- Contemporary reinterpretations of the concept of human rights / David Sidorsky -- [2.] Human-rights issues in their national contexts: Human-rights movement in the Soviet Union / Pavel Litvinov -- Soviet Jewry and international human rights / Yoram Dinstein -- Influence of the Jewish exodus on the democratization of Soviet society / Michael Meerson-Aksenov -- Jews of Iraq and the international protection of the rights of minorities (1856-1976) / Mitchell Knisbacher -- Freedom of conscience and religion in Israel / Shimon Shetreet -- Human-rights issues in Israel's rule of the West Bank and Gaza / Jerome J. Shestack -- 2. Historical development in Jewish thought and experience: [1.] Classical sources: Hebrew Bible on human rights / Herbert Chanan Brichto -- Rabbis and Philo on human rights / David Daube -- Human rights in Jewish though and life in the Middle Ages / S.D. Goitein -- [2.] Modern movements: Evolution of equal rights: civil and political / Sal W. Baron -- Post-emancipation development of rights: liberalism and universalism / Jacob Katz -- Jewish issues on the human-rights agenda in the first half of the twentieth century / Leslie C. Green -- Jewish nationalism: self-determination as a human right / Ben Halpern -- Mission and testimony: the universal significance of modern anti-semitism / Jacob L. Talmon. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
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Jews -- Politics and government. |
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Civil rights -- Congresses.
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Civil rights. |
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Civil rights (Jewish law) -- Congresses.
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Civil rights (Jewish law) |
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Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses.
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Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Human rights -- Congresses.
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Human rights. |
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Sidorsky, David.
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Liskofsky, Sidney.
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Shestack, Jerome J.
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Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989.
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McGill International Colloquium on Judaism and Human Rights (1974)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Essays on human rights. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, c1979 (OCoLC)608206379 |
| ISBN |
0827601077 : $12.00 |
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9780827601079 |
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