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THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56Th Street New York, New York 10022 Jews THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Jews and Power: Literature, Philosophy, Politics December 1, 2014 – December 12, 2014 Dean: Eric Cohen Instructors: Ruth Wisse, Elliott Abrams, and Ran Baratz Visiting Speakers: Bret Stephens, Michael Doran, and Hillel Fradkin Updated: Nov 26, 2014 I. Description: Between the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the founding of modern Israel nearly two millennia later, the Jewish people survived without a national home. During those many centuries, Jewish language and literature, Jewish law and customs, together sustained Jewish communities dispersed throughout the known world. For the last many centuries—before the founding of modern Israel—the extraordinary achievements of the Jewish people and their prodigious contributions to Western civilization have all taken place without the one thing that most defines a nation: the political and military power to protect its citizens in a sovereign land. As a result, Jewish thinkers and writers reconceived the meaning of their nation in manifestly moral and communal rather than political terms. Without the mechanisms of government or self-defense, Jewish communities fell prey to the dangers of powerlessness. Generations of exilic Jews sought to live as “a light unto the nations,” seeking toleration and protection from their host rulers. But their political dependency left diaspora Jews vulnerable to being scapegoated—a tendency that has persisted despite the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in Israel. With the return of sovereignty, what is the proper relation of Judaism and Jewish tradition to political and military power? Does the history of Jewish thought entail a distinctive approach to the responsibilities of leadership and statecraft? How does the literature, culture, and ritual life born in exile relate to the modern Jewish reality, with the Zionist State at the center and yet with significant populations of Jews still living as minority communities in sometimes friendly, sometimes tolerant, sometimes hostile states? Led by Harvard University professor Ruth Wisse, Israeli intellectual and Mida editor Ran Baratz, and former deputy national security adviser and Middle East expert Elliott Abrams, this course will explore the dilemmas of Jewish power. Drawing upon the Hebrew Bible, modern Jewish literature, biographies of Jewish statesmen, and various historical case studies, we will explore both the spirit of the Jewish mind and the realities of the modern Jewish political condition. p. 1 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 II. Institute Calendar Monday, December 1 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 8:45 Welcome Breakfast 9:45- Psalm 137 12:15 Traditional Sources, Ruth Wisse Book of Esther Anomalous Politics Excerpts from Itzik Manger, The Megillah Songs 12:15– Lunch and Participant Introductions 2:30 2:30-5:00 Ran Baratz and Eric The Book of Joshua The Book of Joshua, chs. 1–11 Cohen Tuesday, December 2 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- Modern Perceptions of the Mendele Mocher Sforim, The Mare 12:15 Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: An Inside Account, session 1 (trans. Joachim Neugroschel) 2:30-5:00 Jabotinsky “On the Fireplace” Jabotinsky on War and Human “Trumpeldor’s Jahrzeit” Ran Baratz Nature “Wanton” “The Legion” “Homo Homini Lupus” [Eng. only] 6:00-8:00 Ruth Wisse in Conversation with Eric Cohen: In the Arena: The Life and Career of Ruth Wisse p. 2 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Wednesday, December 3 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- I.L.Peretz, “Bontshe Shvayg (the Modern Perceptions of the 12:15 Silent)” (1894/ Yiddish) Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: An Inside Account, session 2 Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool” 2:00-4:30 Ben-Gurion “Our Defense” Regional Wars (1948, 1967, Ran Baratz “Three Fronts” 1973) Yigal Alon, “A State With Its Back to the Sea” 5:15 – Bret Stephens, America, Israel, and the Coming Global Disorder 7:15 Thursday, December 4 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings Haim Nahman Bialik, “The City of Modern Perceptions of the 9:45– Slaughter” (1903/ Hebrew) Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: 12:15 An Inside Account, session 3 Lamed Shapiro, “The Cross” and/or “White Challah” (Yiddish) 2:30– The New Middle East Peace Agreement with Egypt Ran Baratz 5:00 Peres: New Middle East Friday, December 5 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 8:30- Modern Perceptions of the 10:30 Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: Haim Hazaz, “The Sermon” An Inside Account, session 4 (1943/Hebrew) 10:45- 12:45 Ran Baratz Decline of Israeli Power Baratz: The Return of the Ground Offensive [Heb. only] p. 3 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Monday, December 8 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- Modern Perceptions of the 12:15 Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: Isaac Babel, “Argamak” (1930)/ An Outside Account, session 1 Russian) 2:30-5:00 Seymour Martin Lipset, “A Unique People in an Exceptional Country,” in American Pluralism and the Jewish Community “A Sketch of the History of Jews in the US,” AJC Samuel Oppenheim, “The Early History of the Jews in New York, 1654–1664: Some New Matter on the Subject” Samuel Rabinove, “How—And Why—American Jews Have Contended for Religious Freedom: The Requirements and Limits of Civility” Frederick J. Zwierlein, “New Netherland Intolerance” Elliott Overview History of the Moses Seixas’ Letter from Abrams American Jewish Congregation Yeshuat Israel George Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport “Anti-Semitism in the United States: Americans react to the Damascus Blood Libel (1840),” American Jewish Historical Society “The Jews and Martin Van Buren,” National Jewish Outreach Program Joakim Isaacs, “Candidate Grant and the Jew,” American Jewish Archives Naomi W. Cohen, “Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership,” Commentary (Feb 2000) “Morocco Jews Grateful,” Boston Evening Transcript (June 1, 1906) p. 4 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Max J. Kohler, Jewish Rights at International Congresses (1917) Naomi W. Cohen, “The Abrogation of the Russo-American Treaty of 1832,” Jewish Social Studies 25 (Jan 1963) Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex Martin J. Raffel, “History of Israel Advocacy” p. 5 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Tuesday, December 9 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- Modern Perceptions of the 12:15 Ruth Wisse Problem of Jews and Power: Franz Kafka, “A Report to an An Outside Account, session 2 Academy” (1917/German) 2:30-5:00 Riegner Telegram, (August 10, 1942) The National Archives UK David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews “American Jewry and the Holocaust,” Shoah Resource Center, Yad Vashem Yehuda Bauer, “The Holocaust, America, and American Jewry,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 4 (2012) Elliott The Shoah Abrams “American Jewish Congress, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, FDR and the Jews (2013) Allan Arkush, “Abba Hillel Silver, Man of the Zionist Hour,” Mosaic (2013) Henry L. Feingold, “Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust: The Human Dilemma,” American Jewish History (1979) 6:00-8:00 Elliott Abrams in Conversation with Eric Cohen: In the Arena: The Life and Career of Elliott Abrams p. 6 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Wednesday, December 10 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- Toward Jewish Political Self- Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem. 12:15 Ruth Wisse Determination, session 1 Selections (1862/German), preface, Letters 1–7, and 12 2:30-5:00 Letters from and to Eddie Jacobson Richard C. Holbrooke, “President Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel” Steven L. Spiegel, The Other Arab- Israeli Conflict Roger Stone, “Actions Over Words,” Washington Free Beacon American Foreign Policy and Elliott the State of Israel “Memorandum of Conversation,” Abrams The White House (November 12, 1973) Rabbi Norman Lamm, “Kissinger and the Jews,” The Jewish Center (Dec 1975) Gil Troy, “Happy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger,” Tablet (May 23, 2013) Adam Nagourney, “In Tapes, Nixon Rails Jews and Blacks,” The New York Times (Dec 10, 2010) p. 7 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Thursday, December 11 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 9:45- Theodor Herzl, Old New Land. 12:15 Toward Jewish Political Self- Selections (1902/German), esp. Ruth Wisse Determination, session 2 Book One, Book Two, Part I of Book Three and the final part of Book 5 2:30-5:00 Steven L. Spiegel, The Other Arab- Israeli Conflict Yossi Klein Halevi, “Jacob Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry,” Azure 17 (2004) George Perkovich, “Soviet Jewry Elliott The Struggle Over Soviet Jewry and American Foreign Policy,” Abrams World Policy Journal 5 (1988) William Korey, “The Struggle over Jackson-Mills-Vanik,” The American Jewish Year Book 75 (1974-75) William W. Orbach, “The British Soviet Jewry Movement,” World Zionist Organization (Fall 1978) 6:00-8:00 Michael Doran and Hillel Fradkin, Muslims and Power p. 8 THE TIKVAH FUND 165 E. 56th Street New York, New York 10022 Friday, December 12 Times Lead Instructor Topic Readings 8:30- Toward Jewish Political Self- Ruth Wisse 10:30 Determination, session 3 Haim Sabato, Adjusting Sights 10:45- Michael Massing, “The Storm over 12:45 the Israel Lobby,” The New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006) David Verbeeten, “How Important Is the Israel Lobby?” Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2006) Mitchell Bard, “Congress and the Middle East: The Pro-Israel and Pro-Arab Lobbies,” Jewish Virtual Library (updated July 2012) Elliott Abrams, Tested by Zion The Israel Lobby, and the Elliott Abrams, “Questioning Elliott American Jewish Community Hagel,” National Review Online (Jan Abrams Today 12, 2013) Rachel Weiner, “Biden: Jewish Leaders Helped Gay Marriage Succeed,” Post Politics (May 22, 2013) Patrick Brennan, “Joe Biden Attributes Social Liberalism to Jewish Control of Hollywood and ‘Social Media,’” National Review Online (May 23, 2013) Joel Stein, “Who Runs Hollywood? 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