Shalem Press Publications
A Transforming the Intellectual Landscape of Israel
Shalem Press was established in 1995 in order to enrich Israel’s intellectual life by translating classic works of Western thought into Hebrew for the first time. In the years since, we have broadened our mission to include Hebrew translations of important contemporary works of political and social thought, and English-language publications in the fields of Jewish thought and the contribution of Jewish ideas to the Western intellectual heritage.
With the generous support of its friends, Shalem Press has lived up to its original promise. We have published 70 titles, sold more than 100,000 print copies, and reached tens of thousands of digital readers. In Israel, our books have become synonymous with quality, and our translations are commended by academic and general audiences alike for their superior literary and scholarly standards. Shalem Press books are included in the syllabi of a growing number of university courses—to date, they number in the thousands—and the ideas found in Shalem’s timeless classics continue to engage and inspire new generations of Israeli readers.
When Shalem College opens its doors, Shalem Press works will feature in its rigorous, text-based Core Curriculum and major tracks, enabling an unfiltered encounter between our students and the monumental ideas revealed by the intellectual giants of history. We are profoundly grateful to the Gilbert and Elisa Palter Family Endowment of Toronto for their Founding Leadership Gift for the Publication of Great Texts. Beyond making available to Shalem College students the works most vital to their studies, their magnanimous gift has been instrumental in beginning to transform the public discourse in the Jewish state.
The extraordinary success of Shalem Press has been made possible by the ongoing support of many other friends and patrons. We are grateful to the Cultural Office of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Israel Culture Ministry’s Project for the Translation of Great Books, the Canadian Council for the Arts, the French Ministry of Culture, the Dutch Foundation for Literature, the Goethe Institute, the Mark Gerson Charitable Fund, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Martin Gross, Michael and Polina Liberman, Rob Bildner, Marvin Israelow, Peter Joseph, and Samuel “Skip” E. Vichness. Leviathan—Classics in Philosophy
First Complete Translation into Hebrew!
“Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of דוד יום more mistakes among philosophers.” מסכת טבע האדם
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, titan of the Age of Enlightenment, is the most comprehensive work on human nature ever written. Since its publication some three centuries ago, the book has become a cornerstone of philosophical thought in fields as diverse as epistemology, emotion, religion, and psychology. Hume’s ideas have lost none of their vitality, and remain as illuminating as they were in the eighteenth century. Shalem’s translation, the first complete Hebrew edition, brings to the Israeli public another foundational work of Anglo- Saxon thought. עורך מרק שטיינר תרגום יפתח בריל Edited and with an introduction by Mark Steiner, Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
1 First Complete Translation into Hebrew!
“The publication of a complete Hebrew translation of Leviathan is undoubtedly a major event in the political discourse in Israel, a country where issues like the power of the state and the influence of religion on civil law touch upon its very essence. If it is our goal to make Israeli political discourse deeper—and richer—then Leviathan is ”.the best stepping-stone תומאס הובס Yiftach Ofek, Makor Rishon— לויתן Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Without a doubt one of the most important and influential works of Western political thought. Its philosophical outlook is darkly pessimistic: The state of nature amounts to endless warfare, with man portrayed at his most irrational, violent, and despicable. The sole corrective is a form of government based on a social contract, where all individuals relinquish their rights to a single sovereign. Originally published in 1651, the ideas in this work remain fresh, relevant, and controversial to this day. Edited and with an introduction by Menachem Lorberbaum, Chairman of the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbala at Tel Aviv עורך מנחם לורברבוים University. תרגום אהרן אמיר 2009 | 632 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-36-5 | NIS 139 | $37.50
2 First Complete Translation into Hebrew!
“[The Federalist Papers] will merit the Notice of Posterity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will be always interesting to mankind so long as אלכסנדר המילטון, they shall be connected in Civil Society.” ג׳יימס מדיסון וג׳ון ג׳יי —George Washington הפדרליסט The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Together with the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers laid the foundation for the strongest and most durable democracy in history. Although written in haste at a time of crisis, these essays remain the primary source of American political thought and constitutional law, and may be the most important work of political theory ever written in the United States. מבוא רות גביזון ואלן שפירא With an introduction by Ruth Gabison, Professor of Law at the Hebrew .University in Jerusalem and Israel Prize winner עורכת יעל חזוני תרגום אהרן אמיר 2001 | 559 pages | paperback original | ISBN 965-7052-07-6 | NIS 99 | $26.99
3 First Complete Translation into Hebrew!
“We must thank Shalem Press for its Hebrew translation of Machiavelli’s Discourses, one of the great books of the republican tradition… Machiavelli’s book is relevant to the Israeli condition not only because it provides an alternative to liberalism…—the model that currently dominates politics. This book is also a reminder that ,in the past, before this model became dominant ניקולו מקיאוולי republicanism was an essential component of Israeli ”.political life דיונים —Menachem Mautner, Tel Aviv University
Discourses Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses is Niccolò Machiavelli’s most ambitious work. In his daring style, Machiavelli treats the conditions for the birth and consolidation of states, the conditions that allow them to survive, the elements of power, and the desire for liberty. The book includes some of the most innovative ideas in the history of political thought, which have inspired thinkers and leaders for centuries. עורך Edited and with an introduction by Hillay Zmora, Professor of History at הלי זמורה .Ben Gurion University תרגום מרים שוסטרמן־פדובאנו 2010 | 418 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-75-4 | NIS 99 | $28.50
4 רוברט פילמר רוברט קאבר אדמנד ברק פטריארכה נומוס ונראטיב מחשבות על המהפכה בצרפת
מבוא אופיר העברי עורך יוסף א׳ דוד מבוא יורם ברונובסקי עורך יוני ויינריב־שריג תרגום אהרן אמיר תרגום אביעד שטיר תרגום אהרן אמיר
Shipwreck Reflections on the Nomos and Narrative Patriarchia Hans Blumenberg Revolution in France Robert Cover Robert Filmer
People wish to live on terra firma Edmund Burke Robert Cover’s greatly influential Patriarchal authority is the yet employ the metaphor of a A classic of political thought. 1983 book undermines formalistic natural, exclusive source of all dangerous sea voyage as a key Burke warns against the dangers views of the nature of law and political power—this notion to their existential dilemmas. of the French Revolution and jurisprudence and their role in serves as the basis of Filmer’s Blumenberg, one of Germany’s radical thought in general, the liberal state. Cover draws his political theory, according most prominent philosophers promoting instead the principles examples from rabbinic tradition to which absolute monarchy of the late twentieth century, of conservatism. and analyzes test cases from the is the sole legitimate form traces the various turns taken by annals of American law, arguing of governance. Alongside this metaphor in the writings of 2004 | 204 pages | paperback original that the legal system combines their contribution to our ISBN 965-7052-04-1 | NIS 88 | $23.99 Western cultural luminaries. two normative principles: on the understanding of the history of
2005 | 170 pages | paperback original one hand, a creative element, political thought, the “patriarchal” ISBN 965-7052-20-3 | NIS 66 | $17.99 oriented to the future, the ideal; claims expose more than a few and on the other, an element critical flaws in theories of natural seeking to maintain norms and rights and the social contract, regulate violence. many of which continue to affect
2012 | 154 pages | paperback original liberalism today. ISBN 978-965-7052-84-6 | NIS 66 | $17.99 2009 | 162 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-67-9 | NIS 66 | $17.99
5 גיאורג וילהלם פרידריך הגל פרידריך האייק מילטון פרידמן גוטלוב פרגה פילוסופיה הדרך לשעבוד קפיטליזם וחירות כתב מושגים של המשפט
עורך אופיר העברי הקדמה דוד לב־הרי עורכת אוולינה גרץ עורך פיני איפרגן תרגום גדי גולדברג תרגום אהרן אמיר תרגום מזל כהן עורך ומתרגם גלעד ברעלי
Begriffsschrift Capitalism and The Road to Serfdom Philosophy of Right (Concept Notation) Freedom Friedrich Hayek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Gottlob Frege Milton Friedman A comprehensive critique of Hegel systems of government that This seminal text of modern logic Friedman explains the Philosophy of Right paved the promote centralized political constitutes a bold attempt to significance of competitive way for a new understanding and economic power, perceived overcome the fact that language capitalism, both as a means of of the modern state, parting as fertile ground for the growth mediates between thought and attaining economic liberty and with philosophies of the social of totalitarian regimes in the its expression. Frege developed as a necessary precondition contract like those of Hobbes, twentieth century. The Road to a formalized language of logic to for political liberty. The book Locke, and Rousseau. A seminal Serfdom is enjoying immense free thought from the constraints discusses the principles of liberal work in numerous fields, it popularity today in the wake of of the word. society, applying them to urgent also offers a scathing and the recent world financial crisis. 2004 | 204 pages | paperback original problems of our time, such as important critique of Kant’s ISBN 965-7052-13-0 | NIS 88 | $23.99 monetary policy, discrimination, 1998 | 224 pages | paperback original moral philosophy and is widely education, division of income, ISBN 965-7052-02-5 | NIS 88 | $23.99 recognized as formative in the welfare, and poverty. development of major ideological
2002 | 212 pages | paperback original currents in the nineteenth and ISBN 965-7052-09-2 | NIS 88 | $23.99 twentieth centuries, whether revolutionary, liberal, or nationalist.
2011 | 391 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-78-5 | NIS 99 | $28.50
6 אלסדייר מקינטאייר ק״ס לואיס מקס הורקהיימר מֵעֵבֶר ביטול האדם ליקוי מאורות למידה הטובה התבונה
מבוא אייל חוברס הקדמה אסף שגיב מבוא צבי רוזן תרגום יונתן לוי מתרגם להד לזר תרגום אביעד שטיר
Eclipse of Reason The Abolition of Man The Prince After Virtue Max Horkheimer C.S. Lewis Niccollò Machiavelli Alasdair MacIntyre
The Western cultural tradition In this indictment of trends A new, annotated translation MacIntyre claims that moral has always regarded reason as in modern thought, the well- of the masterpiece of Western philosophy and actions in the the quality that raises man to known fantasy author exposes political philosophy, including an modern era suffer from severe a level of existence superior to their devastating implications introduction and bibliography. disorder, rooted inter alia in that of animals. Max Horkheimer for cultural resilience and for Drawing upon his penetrating the liberal individualism of the describes a historical process the moral vision of future insights into the depths of the Enlightenment. As a result, whereby the concept of reason generations. The book presents human psyche, Machiavelli modern moral discourse and has atrophied to no more than a penetrating analysis of the counsels the Prince on how to actions are hollow; although a tool for adapting means to dangers inherent in patronizing, better rule his subjects. The Prince this discourse is present in given ends, without the authority sterile rationalism, sweeping marked a new era in Western form, its content has been lost. to judge the value of the ends moral skepticism, and the culture in attitudes pertaining to MacIntyre proposes renewing themselves. Reason thereby aspirations of science to conquer ethics and politics, good and evil, traditional moral discourse based becomes a mere means, serving a nature—and, consequently, and power and justice. on Aristotelian virtue ethics, and purpose set by external forces. humanity itself. 2003 | 214 pages | paperback original developing it into a new moral 2009 | 176 pages | paperback original 2005 | 112 pages | paperback original with Dvir Press | ISBN 965-517-096-9 language adapted to modernity. NIS 66 | $17.99 ISBN 978-965-7052-58-7 | NIS 66 | $17.99 ISBN 965-7052-19-X | NIS 52 | $14.00 2004 | 204 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-46-4 | NIS 88 | $23.99
7 תומס פיין מייקל אוקשוט ריינהולד ניבור ג‘ון סטיוארט מיל שכל ישר הרציונליזם בני האור על החירות בפוליטיקה ובני החושך
עורך אפרים פודוקסיק עורך אייל נווה הקדמה ירון אזרחי מבוא דוד ריצ׳י תרגום ליה נירגד תרגום ערן שועלי תרגום אהרן אמיר עורך ברק בן–נתן תרגום אהרן אמיר
On Liberty The Children of Light Rationalism in Politics Common Sense John Stewart Mill and the Children of and Other Essays Thomas Paine Darkness On Liberty, considered to be Michael Oakeshott Common Sense is a tour de force in Mill’s most important work, is a Reinhold Niebuhr Rationalism in Politics is a stunning the genre of political manifestos. seminal text of political liberalism. mosaic of essays on a variety The tract denounces aristocratic Mill claimed that democratic An original defense of liberal institutions, calling upon the democracy, written with of topics, including politics and society, being hostile to anyone poetry, Hobbesian philosophy, American colonies to sever their who deviates from its norms, outstanding sophistication and ties with the oppressive British clarity, and with an awareness the nature of science, and the endangers the individual’s liberty writing of history. Oakeshott crown and establish independent no less than political tyranny. The of its weaknesses and illusions, republican rule. Paine bases many by one of the most important argues that the rationalist trend in era of majority rule yielded new politics ignores the rich diversity of his arguments for choosing dangers threatening to oppress American Christian intellectuals liberty on biblical interpretation. of the twentieth century. of human experience, and that the individual’s uniqueness, with disregarding the wealth of 2007 | 118 pages | paperback original severe indirect repercussions for 2004 | 216 pages | paperback original traditional knowledge that has ISBN 978-965-7052-49-5 | NIS 66 | $17.99 ISBN 965-7052-24-6 | NIS 88 | $23.99 human development. accumulated over generations 2006 | 164 pages | paperback original will eventually destroy the ISBN 978-965-7052-43-3 | NIS 66 | $17.99 institutions that hold society together.
2011| 400 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-65-5 | NIS 99 | $24.99
8 אלקסיס דה־טוקוויל ליאו שטראוס קרל פופר קרל פופר הדמוקרטיה באמריקה הזכות הטבעית דלות ההיסטוריציזם החברה הפתוחה וההיסטוריה ואויביה
עורך אהוד לוז מבוא זאב לוי עורך יוסף אגסי הקדמה יובל שטייניץ מבוא אופיר העברי תרגום אהרן אמיר תרגום דוד זינגר עורך ברק בן־נתן תרגום פנינה זייץ תרגום אהרן אמיר
The Open Society The Poverty of Natural Right and Democracy in America and Its Enemies Historicism History Alexis de Tocqueville
Karl Popper Karl Popper Leo Strauss Immediately recognized as Karl Popper, one of the most The twentieth century was Leo Strauss, one of the most seminal text, Democracy in prominent philosophers of the an arena of bloody conflicts, provocative political thinkers of America has come to be regarded twentieth century, develops reflecting powerful ideological the twentieth century, proposes as a classic of democratic theory his democratic theory of the clashes that still reverberate a return to questions that have in particular and the study of open society, exposing in this today. In this book, Karl Popper been neglected since Hobbes, modern society in general. This meticulous critique the roots takes on the battle for the very Locke, and Rousseau: Do human account, based on the young of modern totalitarianism in the soul of Western civilization, beings have natural rights? Are Tocqueville’s extensive travels philosophies of Plato, Hegel, launching a concerted, there unchanging criteria of the in the United States, analyzes and Marx. uncompromising attack against right and the just? Strauss seeks the American case as a model a single idea—historicism, or to reinstate political philosophy for the formation of a modern 2003 | 846 pages | paperback original democratic society, perceiving it ISBN 965-7052-10-6 | NIS 136 | $37.99 the notion that certain “laws” or as a superior discipline among “trends” underlie history. the humanities, in the hope as the begining of a completely of overcoming the moral new era in culture, politics, and 2009 | 159 pages | paperback original social order. ISBN 978-965-7052-80-8 | NIS 66 | $17.99 and political crisis of modern liberalism. 2008 | 907 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-41-9 | NIS 139 | $37.99 2005 | 200 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-32-7 | NIS 88 | $23.99
9 כסנופון ג׳מבטיסטה ויקו דיאלוגים סוקרטיים המדע החדש
עורך יוסף מאלי עורך ומתרגם גבריאל דנציג תרגום אריאל רטהאוז
New Science Apology, Symposium, Giambatista Vico Economicus
A foundational text of modern Xenophon humanities and social sciences. A translation from the Greek Vico assumed that human beings of three Socratic dialogues by are capable of truly knowing Xenophon of Athens, military only what they themselves commander and philosopher. have created. Consequently, For readers familiar with Socrates he challenged the logical and from his portrayal in the writings methodological validity of the of Plato, Xenophon’s dialogues natural sciences, setting up illuminate the thought of Socrates in opposition to them a New in an unexpected way. Science of man, society, and history. Vico’s work profoundly 2002 | 200 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-11-4 | NIS 88 | $23.99 influenced such major thinkers and writers as James Joyce, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, Goethe, and others.
2005 | 618 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-21-1 | NIS 140 | $37.99
10 Democratic Thought
Best Seller!
“Huntington’s impressive knowledge of cultural and political phenomena in countries and continents that are distant from סמואל הנטינגטון the United States both geographically and culturally is matched by his ability to weave this information into a coherent and convincing explanatory paradigm. David Ben-Nahum’s crisp translation and Dan Margalit’s introduction help the reader delve effortlessly into the text and enjoy it thoroughly.”
—Efraim Halevy, former director of the Mossad and head of Israel’s National Security Council, Ha’aretz התנגשות The Clash of Civilizations הציביליזציות Samuel Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations offers a penetrating and farsighted analysis of the global political arena in the post-Cold War era. In this sharp and detailed דן מרגלית הקדמה book, Huntington explains how nations and ideologies have given way to what he calls “civilizations” as the locomotives of world politics, and how דוד בן־נחום תרגום this development will affect humanity in the future. 2003 | 530 pages | paperback original | ISBN 965-7052-23-8 | NIS 99 | $26.99
11 Best Seller!
“This is a brave book by a brave man—an eloquent plea for moral clarity, and a fine example of it.”
—Bernard Lewis, Princeton University
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer
Sharansky decries the moral confusion plaguing the citizens of the democratic nations, and argues that the key to resolving the conflicts in the Middle East is the democratization of all countries involved. By exposing the fault lines of the “societies of fear,” the author explains why democracy is not beyond the reach of any nation, why it is vital to our security, and what we should do to encourage its spread around the world. 2005 | 254 pages | paperback original | ISBN 965-7052-26-2 | NIS 88 | $23.99
12 Best Seller!
“Kissinger’s absorbing book tackles head-on some of the toughest questions of our time.... Its pages sparkle with insight.”
Simon Schama, The New Yorker— דיפלומטיה הנרי קיסינג׳ר “The most important work on diplomacy for thirty years.”
—Walter Laqueur
Diplomacy Henry Kissinger
Kissinger, one of the most influential statesmen of the twentieth century and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, reveals the secrets of the diplomacy cloaking global power struggles. This masterwork serves as a classic text for diplomatic studies around the world. It is a breathtaking account of מבוא שלמה אבינרי how the art of diplomacy has shaped our world. 2007 | 941 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-33-4 | NIS 149 | $40.50
13 Best Seller!
אדריאן הייסטינגס בנייתן של אומות התנ״ך והיווצרות מדינות הלאום
תרגום דן דאור מבוא ועריכה אסף מלאך
Power and the Idealists: Against Deconstruction In the Name of The Construction The Passion of John Ellis the Other of Nationhood: Joshka Fischer and Ethnicity, Religion and A direct, well-aimed attack Alain Finkielkraut Its Aftermath Nationalism on deconstructionism, which, A polished, incisive essay on the Paul Berman according to the author, new anti-Semitism in Europe’s Adrian Hastings endangers free, productive “enlightened camp,” by one of During a 1970s street protest, The Construction of Nationhood discussion of literature. France’s outstanding intellectuals. Joshka Fischer was photographed challenges the modernist claim 2004 | 204 pages | paperback original 2004 | 36 pages | paperback original beating a cop to the ground; ISBN 965-7052-28-9 | NIS 88 | $23.99 that nationality originated in ISBN 965-7052-18-1 | NIS 34 | $9.50 during the 1990s, as German the modern era. Contrary to foreign minister, he supported prevailing opinion, Hastings Clinton in a NATO-led military maintains that the seeds of intervention in the Balkans. Paul nationhood appeared in the Berman, “one of America’s best Middle Ages, with the Bible exponents of recent intellectual playing a crucial role in the history” (The Economist), consolidation of national masterfully traces the intellectual awareness.
and moral evolution of the 2008 | 325 pages | paperback original impassioned generation of 1968. ISBN 978-965-7052-50-1 | NIS 88 | $23.99 2008 | 254 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-51-8 | NIS 88 | $23.99
14 Worldly Philosophers: Crisis Reflections of a Disobedience The Lives, Times, and Henry Kissinger Neoconservative and Democracy Ideas of the Great A gripping account of the Yom Irving Kristol Martin Luther King et al. Economic Thinkers Kippur War and the American Irving Kristol, sometimes A thought-provoking collection Robert Heilbroner withdrawal from Vietnam, referred to as the “godfather of essays on civil disobedience, presented in the form of the of neoconservatism,” presents including classic works by the Along with a masterful depiction original phone conversations basic tenets of one of the most most influential minds to address of the lives of the great economic between the statesmen behind influential ideological streams the subject and by prominent thinkers, Robert Heilbroner also the events. on the American scene in recent Israeli scholars Shlomo Avineri, presents a brilliant analysis of 2004 | 492 pages | paperback original decades. Elyakim Haetzni, Haim Cohen, their ideas, a blend that brings ISBN 965-7052-25-4 | NIS 99 | $26.99 and others. abstract principles to life. 2004 | 366 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-12-2 | NIS 88 | $23.99 1998 | 252 pages | paperback original 2011 | 384 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-05-1 | NIS 88 | $23.99 ISBN 978-965-7052-82-2 | NIS 99 | $26.99
15 תומס סואל סטיבן פינקר לינדה פולמן האינסטינקט הלשוני יסודות כיצד המוח יוצר שפה תעשיית החמלה נתן שרנסקי עם שירה וויס־וולסקי הכלכלה בזכות הזהות מאחורי הקלעים תפקידה החיוני בהגנה על הדמוקרטיה של הסיוע ההומניטרי מדריך לאזרח
מבוא: עומר מואב תרגום: יצחק טישלר
The Language Instinct: The Crisis Caravan: Defending Identity Basic Economics: How the Mind Creates What’s Wrong with Natan Sharansky with A Citizen’s Guide to Language Humanitarian Aid? Shira Wolosky Weiss the Economy Steven Pinker Linda Polman Thomas Sowell Natan Sharansky attacks the In this new classic, the world’s The Crisis Caravan sheds light widespread belief that identity A lucid explanation of the basics expert on language and mind on the multi-million-dollar and freedom are mutually of modern economics, without lucidly explains everything you humanitarian relief network, exclusive and argues that strong graphs, formulas, or professional always wanted to know about sharply criticizing it for ignoring identities will strengthen Western jargon, by one of the leading language: how it works, how potentially disastrous outcomes countries and their commitment economists in the United States. children learn it, how it changes, of its work in war-torn countries. to a democratic way of life. Not Basic Economics enables laymen how the brain computes it, Exposing unbearable moral all value systems are of equal to understand the workings and how it evolved. With deft dilemmas as well as incredible value, Sharansky reminds us, and of the market, and provides use of humor and wordplay, absurdities and horrors, Polman democracy and liberty are worth the reader with the tools for Steven Pinker weaves our vast asks whether action is indeed fighting for—and even dying assessing the economic policy knowledge of language into a always preferable to doing for—if necessary. of his country’s leaders from an compelling story: Language is a nothing. 2011 | 236 pages | paperback original informed perspective. ISBN 978-965-7052-83-9 | NIS 88 | $25.50 human instinct, wired into our 2012 | 258 pages | paperback original 2006 | 558 pages | paperback original brains by evolution. ISBN 978-965-7052-47-1 | NIS 88 | $23.99 ISBN 978-965-7052-39-6 | NIS 99 | $26.99 2011 | 496 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-69-3 | NIS 119 | $32.50
16 מיכאל וולצר לאומיות ואוניברסליזם צ׳רלס טיילור מבוא ותרגום אריאל שריד מועקת המודרניות פרט נאצי בהגותו של קרל שמיט
איב שארל זרקא מבוא אלחנן יקירה תרגום פנינה זייץ מבוא אליעזר מלכיאל
A Conflict of Visions: The Malaise of Nation and Universe A Nazi Detail in the Ideological Origins of Modernity Michael Walzer Thought of Carl Schmitt Political Struggles Charles Taylor Given that there is no single Yves Charles Zarka Thomas Sowell The frenetic tumult of modern way of implementing universal Although Carl Schmitt’s Nazism popular culture, with its crass values, Walzer, one of the is no secret, most writers “Visions” are the primary, pre- greatest political thinkers of our rational views shared by those displays of materialism and selfish and intellectuals downplay ambition, conceals the moral time, recommends continuous its importance. Zarka claims who side together in various dialogue whereby these arguments in society; they are ideal at its core: authenticity. In that Schmitt’s anti-Semitism The Malaise of Modernity, Charles values are adapted to concrete should not be discounted as the true source of ideological community life and applied in difference among adversaries. An Taylor argues that although the cynical opportunism or merely modern social situation does not an actual moral-political act. an unpleasant aspect of his understanding of the conflict of This new path recognizes the these visions sheds new light on measure up to the standard set personality; rather, it was a by the ideal, it behooves us to legitimacy of maintaining cultural fundamental element of his contemporary political issues and identity as well as the struggle can facilitate a breakthrough in reconstruct the ideal and examine juristic and political theory it with the respect it deserves. for national independence, but which played a decisive part in deadlocked political debates. safeguards itself against the pitfall 2011 | 176 pages | paperback original the process leading to the Final 2001 | 278 pages | paperback original of moral relativism. ISBN 978-965-7052-73-0 | NIS 66 | $18.99 Solution. ISBN 965-7052-08-4 | NIS 88 | $23.99 2009 | 96 pages | paperback original 2009 | 109 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-72-3 | NIS 66 | $17.99 ISBN 978-965-7052-63-1 | NIS 52 | $14.00
17 Modern Jewish Thought
:two most penetrating are "בספר the רדיקלית ,lifeאז, of רדיקלית עכשיו יונתן זקס questionsמחבר את the תובנות הדתall לעולם Of“המודרני ומספר מחדש את סיפור האמונה בצורה מרתקת, ומגיע בכך להישג נדיר בטיבו". .are we?’ Rabbi Sacks answers beautifully —טוניI? Whoבלייר, ראש am ממשלת בריטניה Who‘
”.of my favorite writers "שתי one השאלות is הנוקבות he ביותר של הfaithחיים הן: of 'מי אני? מי אנחנו?' matters בספר זה הרבOn זקס נותן עליהן זקס תשובה יפה. בענייני אמונה, יונתן זקס הוא אחד הסופרים החביבים עליי". —פרופ' מייקל נובאק, AEI
American Enterprise Institute"הספר רדיקלית אז, ,Novak רדיקלית עכשיו טוב לאין ערוך Michael—מכל הספרים האחרים העורכים לקורא היכרות עם היהדות. הרב זקס לוקח אותנו למסע תרבותי ודתי מופלא... קנו את הספר והעניקו אותו כשי — אך קודם לכן, הקפידו לקרוא אותו מתחילתו עד סופו". —הרב נורמן לאם, נשיא 'ישיבה יוניברסיטי' יונתן זקס :Radical Then, Radical Now רדיקלית אז, רדיקלית אז, The Legacy of the רדיקלית עכשיו World’s Oldest Religion מורשת הדת העתיקה בעולם
מיהו יהודי? לפי הרב יונתן זקס האדם Sacks השייך לקולקטיב היהודי הוא שותף Jonathanפעיל בתנועת מחאה עתיקה אשר אחראית לרבים מהישגיה של האנושות, ומשימתו של קולקטיב זה טרם הגיעה לסיומה. הרב סר יונתן זקס rabbi of England, Judaism is an essentially radical )נולד ב–1948chief( מכהן כרבה ,Sacks הראשיto של בריטניה מאז שנת 1991According. הוא הוסמך רדיקלית עכשיו לרבנות מטעם Jews’ College וישיבת עץ חיים, למד פילוסופיה בקיימברידג' ובאוקספורד, והיה power, made an eternal covenant פרופסור אורח material לפילוסופיה בכמה lacking וכמה ,Jews אוניברסיטאות. The הרב זקס כתב ספרים :religionרבים במגוון נושאים, changed their very peoplehood into ועיצב Jews בהם חזוןthe של ,act תקווה this לסובלנות In ולשלום בעולם .Eternalמוכה theשברים. with ד״ר מיכה גודמן מלמד מחשבת ישראל באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים ומכהן כראש מדרשת hatred and brute force, and forged עין on פרת.a protest against tyranny based their national identity out of a shared vision of liberty, justice, and human rights. Radical Then, Radical Now is a powerful reminder of the dreams we אחרית דבר .inherited and the ensuing commitment toward humanity מיכה גודמן www.shalempress.co.il דאנאקוד 496-1038 69 ש״ח 2007 | 221 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-30-3 | NIS 88 | $23.99
18 The Eliezer Berkovits’ Library
אלוהים, אדם והיסטוריה אליעזר ברקוביץ
הקדמה • מנחם קלנר
Essential Essays on Faith after the God, Man and History With God in Hell Judaism Holocaust Eliezer Berkovits Eliezer Berkovits
Eliezer Berkovits Eliezer Berkovits Berkovits examines the Berkovits recounts amazing A collection of select essays The Holocaust poses an underpinnings of Judaism, stories of spiritual courage on ethics, theology, halacha, unimaginable difficulty for constructing a coherent, and analyzes Jewish belief in Zionism, and the Holocaust by belief in a benevolent God. comprehensive view that light of the horrific Holocaust one of the most original Jewish Berkovits proposes a way of stretches from theology to experience. In his opinion, thinkers of the past generation. maintaining hope and faith law to the meaning of Jewish only this approach enables nationhood. one to feel the power of faith 2004 | 380 pages | paperback original despite God’s silence. 2009 | 177 pages | paperback original | and understand the historical ISBN 965-7052-14-9 | NIS 99 | $26.99 2006 | 190 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-52-5 | NIS 66 | $17.99 destiny of the Jewish people. ISBN 965-7052-16-5 | NIS 66 | $17.99 2006 | 186 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-17-3 | NIS 66 | $17.99
19 “Michael Oren has written what is surely the definitive history of the Six-Day War. Of course he has examined easily accessible archives but he has also penetrated the files and memories of those who normally impede research in order to make getting at the truth extremely difficult. His narrative is precise but written with great literary flair. The Six-Day War is an oft-told tale, but in no one else’s study is there more understanding or more surprise.”
—Martin Peretz, The New Republic
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Special Edition) Michael Oren
Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., draws upon thousands of classified and rare documents, including sources in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews to reconstruct the regional and international events in the Middle East that ultimately sparked the war. 2007 | 539 pages | paperback original | with Dvir | ISBN 965-517-276-7 | NIS 89 | $24.00
20 ליאון קאס ראשית חכמה רזא דשבת קריאה בספר בראשית יוסף יצחק ליפשיץ מבוא עידו חברוני
Where Art Thou? New Essays on Zionism The Beginning The Secret of the Dror Bondi David Hazony, Yoram of Wisdom: Sabbath Reading Genesis The philosophy of Abraham Hazony, Michael Oren, Joseph Isaac Lifshitz Joshua Heschel, one of the most eds. Leon R. Kass The subjugation of nature to prominent Jewish thinkers of human control breeds an egotism A collection of essays addressing Israelis who are far removed the past generation, is presented that blocks man’s encounter fundamental issues underlying from religious reading yet seek here via an examination of with God and with the other. the agenda of the Jewish state in inspiration, those no longer his approach to the question However, the Torah does not the twenty-first century. Among content with mythical biblical besetting so many in our time: forbid the exercise of man’s the authors are key figures in romanticism in the old Zionist Can the Jewish tradition be creative potential—for its total Israeli public life, such as Ruth style, intellectuals steeped in translated into modern language denial would be tantamount to Gavison, Amnon Rubinstein, and Western rational thought yet and life? eradicating his soul—but it does Natan Sharansky. dissatisfied with the scholarly 2008 | 389 pages | paperback original approach to the Bible—all restrict his creativity. A Jew exerts ISBN 978-965-7052-59-4 | NIS 88 | $23.99 2006 | 378 pages | paperback original his creative powers for six days, ISBN 965-7052-27-0 | NIS 99 | $26.99 will find this book a relevant repository of knowledge of then turns back to himself on the human nature, along with social seventh. This tempo of creativity insights and timely political and suspension leads to a opinions. meaningful relationship with God. 2010 | 208 pages | paperback original |ISBN 2010 | 752 pages | paperback original 978-965-7052-81-5 | NIS 72 | $19.50 ISBN 978-965-7052-70-9 | NIS 119 | $32.50
21 The City of David The Return to Freud’s Moses: Excavations 2005 Jerusalem: The Jewish Judaism Terminable Eilat Mazar Resettlement of and Interminable the Land of Israel, This report summarizes the finds Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi 1800–1860 unearthed at the site, tentatively Yerushalmi analyzes Freud’s identified with the palace of King Arie Morgenstern motives for publishing his Moses David, and draws preliminary and Monotheism—his only The reawakening of messianic conclusions about their impact work devoted explicitly to a belief in the early nineteenth on our understanding of the Jewish theme—just when the century led to the establishment history of Jerusalem. Nazi shadow began to darken of European Jewish organizations 2007 | 80 pages | paperback original European skies. Freud’s book is supporting the Yishuv in Eretz ISBN 978-965-9029-92-1 | NIS 85 | $23.00 presented as a psychoanalytic Yisrael, and to the creation of a history of the Jews, Judaism, Jewish majority in Jerusalem, and the Jewish psyche—Freud’s as early as 1860. A fascinating efforts to discover what makes account of a religious, ideological the Jews what they are. movement that changed the history of Jerusalem. 2006 | 221 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-22-X | NIS 88 | $23.99 2007 | 625 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-40-2 | NIS 99 | $26.99
22 Books in English
“The Hebraic polis is the counterpole of the Greek polis.”
Philosophy of the Law: The Political in the Torah Shmuel Trigano Shmuel Trigano PhilosoPhy of the law The Political in the Torah Philosophy of the Law articulates the political theory of the Hebrew Bible through a philosophical inquiry into the text. It claims that far from with a foreword by David Novak advocating a theocracy, in which all power rests in the hands of the divine, biblical politics is based on human freedom. The covenant in the Bible may not be a “social contract,” Trigano argues, but the politics to which it leads can illuminate our thinking on the social contract model that dominates the modern understanding of politics. 2011 | 564 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-71-6 | NIS 99 | $25.99
23 “…neither Solon nor Lycurgus nor Charondas nor Plato, nor any of the others who taught their peoples law and custom, had any knowledge of the Hebrew republic; this despite the fact that it was not only the oldest but the most distinguished of them all.”
The Hebrew Republic Carlo Sigonio Carlo Sigonio Carlo Sigonio’s The Hebrew Republic was one of the first works dedicated The hebrew republic to the religious and political institutions of the ancient Hebrew state, and it was the first book to frame this kind of research under the Latin title Respublica Hebraeorum. Soon after its original publication in Bologna in 1582, The Hebrew Republic was suppressed by the Church because of its strenuous anti-monarchism, and it reappeared in Italy only in 1734. In the rest of Europe, however, it enjoyed great popularity and profoundly Introduction by Guido Bartolucci influenced such thinkers as Grotius, Althusius, and Bodin. The first Translated by Peter Wyetzner complete modern translation from Latin. 2010 | 480 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-48-8 | NIS 99 | $26.99
24 Political Hebraism at Shalem Press
Political Hebraism Judaic Sources in Early Modern Political Thought
editors Gordon schochet • Fania oz-salzberger John Selden Petrus Cunaeus meirav Jones The Law of NaTure The hebrew republic aNd of NaTioNs
forthcoming
Introduction by Arthur Eyffinger
Translated by Peter Wyetzner
The Law of Nature and of The Hebrew Republic Political Hebraism: Nations: According to the Petrus Cunaeus Judaic Sources in Early Modern Teachings of the Hebrews Political Thought This monumental seventeenth-century John Selden study of religion and polity in ancient Israel Gordon Schochet, Fania Oz- presents the Hebrew state as a model for Salzberger, Meirav Jones, eds. John Selden, leading legal scholar and the Dutch republic and the alternative parliamentarian of seventeenth-century to the Greco-Roman models. The first “This volume points in fertile new directions England, develops in this volume a complete translation from Latin. for scholarship and debate concerning comprehensive theory of natural law based modern conceptions of nationhood, law, on the Noahide principles of the Talmud. 2006 | 374 pages hardcover ISBN 965-7052-38-6 | NIS 180 | $48.99 and political legitimacy.” paperback ISBN 965-7052-37-8 | NIS 85 | $22.99 —Jonathan Jacobs, Colgate University
2008 | 306 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-45-7 | NIS 76 | $20.99
25 “The Torah is eternal because it has a word, a teaching, for each generation. One can find the word that has Not in Heaven been waiting for this hour to be revealed only if he faces the challenge of each new situation in the history of Eliezer Berkovits the generations of Israel and attempts to deal with it in intellectual and ethical honesty.”
Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Jewish Law Eliezer Berkovits
Eliezer Berkovits’ beloved classic on the principles and function of Jewish law is finally back in print. In language accessible to everyone, Not in Heaven discusses a wide range of contemporary issues, including the status of women, marriage, divorce, conversion, rabbinic authority, and Foreword by Joseph Isaac Lifshitz the role of halacha in a Jewish state. 2010 | 216 pages | paperback original | ISBN 978-965-7052-55-6 | NIS 66 | $17.99
26 God, Man New essaYs and History ON ZiONisM Eliezer Berkovits
edited by David Hazony, Yoram Hazony and Michael B. Oren Edited by David Hazony
Essential Essays God, Man and History The Documentary New Essays on Zionism on Judaism Eliezer Berkovits Hypothesis and the David Hazony, Yoram Composition of the Eliezer Berkovits Berkovits examines the Hazony, Michael B. Oren, Pentateuch A collection of select essays underpinnings of Judaism, eds. on ethics, theology, halacha, constructing a coherent, Umberto Cassuto The first volume of its kind, New Zionism, and the Holocaust by comprehensive view that Cassuto critiques the Essays on Zionism presents the one of the most original Jewish stretches from theology to documentary hypothesis, efforts of a new generation of thinkers of the past generation. law to the meaning of Jewish nationhood. which posits that the text of the Israeli thinkers to defend Zionism, 2001 | 429 pages | paperback original Pentateuch was edited together philosophically and historically, 2004 | 215 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-03-3 | NIS 78 | $21.99 against today’s deepening ISBN 965-7052-15-7 | NIS 62 | $15.95 from independent source documents. The Documentary skepticism of the national state. Hypothesis is a classic defense 2006 | 448 pages | paperback original of the unity and integrity of the ISBN 965-7052-44-0 | NIS 78 | $21.00 Hebrew Bible.
2005 | 172 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-35-8 | NIS 62 | $16.99
27 Moses as Political Leader Aaron Wildavsky
with a foreword by Yoram Hazony
The Dawn: The City of David Moses as Political Political Teachings of Excavations 2005 Leader the Book of Esther Eilat Mazar Aaron Wildavsky
Yoram Hazony This report summarizes the finds “Aaron Wildavsky, a giant of The Dawn removes the book of unearthed at the site, tentatively American political science, brings Esther from the realm of fairy tale, identified with the palace of King his profound understanding of translating the biblical narrative’s David, and draws preliminary human affairs to bear on the political thought into teachings of conclusions about their impact founding of the world’s most the utmost relevance today. on our understanding of the enduring political community, history of Jerusalem. the nation of Israel. A marvelous 2000 | 328 pages | hardcover book!” ISBN 965-7052-06-8 | NIS 72 | $19.50 2007 | 87 pages | paperback original ISBN 978-965-7052-74-7 | NIS 85 | $23.00 —Leon R. Kass 2005 | 325 pages | paperback original ISBN 965-7052-31-9 | NIS 74 | $20
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