Author: David Max Eichhorn File Type: pdf David Max Eichhorn (1906-1986) was a Reform rabbi who served congregations in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Florida he was also a Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Armys XV Corps, who saw action across France and into Germany until VE-Day and beyond (see The Gis Rabbi World War II Letters Of David Max Eichhorn (Modern War Studies)), and he retired in 1968 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He also wrote many books (e.g., Conversion to Judaism a History and Analysis).The back cover clarifies that the book,does not include within its scope an analysis of those conversions that have come about as a direct result of intermarriage or because of a desire to gain social or economic advantage. It does not deal with those American Jews who have quietly passed into Christianity without outwardly displaying symptoms of a genuine change in their religious convictions. Nor does this study concern itself with Jews who, after being converted to Christianity ... lived normal Christian lives, and made no attempt to convert Jews to Christianity.... (T)his study is limited to a consideration of the activites of those non-Jewish and born-Jewish Christians who have made definite efforts to draw into the Christian fold the Jews of the United States and Canada---and the tangible results of those efforts.There are other books with a similar historical focus (e.g., Evangelizing the Chosen People Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)), but Eichhorns 1978 book traces the movement back probably further than anyone else, to 17th century efforts of individuals to convert Jews.Eichhorn states that It is easy to understand why Pauline Christians have made such desperate efforts to convert the Jews, despite the constant failure of such efforts.... If the Jews, among whom the god-man lived, taught, and did his magic tricks, refuse to acknowledge the wondrous power of his saving grace, why should those who have not had the benefit of such a close relationship with him acknowledge that he is the way and the life?Eichhorn begins his study by observing that As late as 1816, there were only three thousand Jews in the entire United States. Missionary efforts grew as the Jewish population grew, but in the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century ... Little was done. Nothing was accomplished.Eichhorn includes interesting items such as that (D.L.) Moody was asked if he had made any Jewish converts. He replied, Well, several have stood up and professed Christ, but I can not say that I put much faith in converted Jews. He chronicles the split between the American Board of Missions to the Jews (ABMJ) and Moishe Rosen (who went on to found Jews for Jesus). He also writes of singer Pat Boone, who described in a movie magazine how he and his family have been converted to Messianic Judaism. Pat, in all seriousness, believes that, through joining this movement, he has become a Jew.This book, though not new, is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Messianic Jewish movement.(Steven H. Propp, amazon review)

Author: Tim Bonyhady File Type: epub Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.Good Living Street takes us from the Gallias middle-class prosperity in the provinces of central Europe to their arrival in Vienna, following the provision of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1848 that gave Jews freedom of movement and residence, legalized their religious services, opened public service and professions up to them, and allowed them to marry.The Gallias, like so many hundreds of thousands of others, came from across the Hapsburg Empire to Vienna, and for the next two decades the city that became theirs was Europes center of art, music, and ideas.The Gallias lived beyond the Ringstrasse in Viennas Fourth District on the Wohllebengasse (translation Good Living Street), named after Viennas first nineteenth-century mayor.In this extraordinary book we see the amassing of the Gallias rarefied collections of art and design their cosmopolitan society we see their religious life and their efforts to circumvent the citys rampant anti-Semitism by the familys conversion to Catholicism along with other prominent intellectual Jews, among them Gustav Mahler. While conversion did not free Jews from anti-Semitism, it allowed them to secure positions otherwise barred to them.Two decades later, as Kristallnacht raged and Vienna burned, the Gallias were having movers pack up the contents of their extraordinary apartment designed by Josef Hoffmann. The family successfully fled to Australia, bringing with them the best private collection of art and design to escape Nazi Austria included were paintings, furniture, three sets of silver cutlery, chandeliers, letters, diaries, books and bookcases, furschinchilla, sable, sealskinand even two pianos, one upright and one Steinway.Not since the publication of Carl Schorskes acclaimed portrait of Viennese modernism, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna*, has a book so brilliantlyand completelygiven us this kind of close-up look at turn-of-the-last-century Viennese culture, art, and daily lifewhen the Hapsburg Empire was fading and modernism and a new order were coming to the fore.*Good Living Street re-creates its world, atmosphere, people, energy, and spirit, and brings it all to vivid life.From the Hardcover edition.span Apple-style-span normalReviewspanBonyhady has delved deeply into his forebears concert books, travel logs, letters, and death certificates in an effort to reconstruct his familys identity and, for his mother, to place a value on her life that she did not. The result is a lucid, poignant generational tale of loss of material wealth and cultural identity that provides new perspective and insight into both Holocaust and immigration studies.BooklistTim Bonyhady goes far beyond the story of how a great art collection came into being, with rich descriptions of the political, social, and cultural context of Vienna from the turn of the 20th century to 1938. Victoria NewhousePraise from Australia forGood Living StreetArts aficionados will be mesmerized here by Bonyhadys meticulous research of Vienna as an important centre of European arts modernism . . . Good Living Street is a captivating tour-de-force . . . Bonyhady deploys a genre of writing that impressively and poetically weaves together art, social and cultural histories and deeply reflexive investigative family biography with a mesmerizing, galloping narrativeit is at once a book that is arts educational and highly political and personal.Jon Altman, Art Monthly Australia Good Living Street is something of a melange, although rich as an expensive cake tray . . . a rich tapestry of intriguing stories.Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Saturday Agespan Apple-style-span normalAbout the AuthorspanTim Bonyhady is an award-winning art historian, curator, and environmental lawyer. He is the director of the Centre of Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

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Author: Ozan Varol File Type: pdf The term coup detat--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats to democracy. Its a powerful, concise, and self-reinforcing idea. Its also wrong. In The Democratic Coup dEtat, Ozan Varol advances a simple, yet controversial, argument Sometimes, a democracy is established through a military coup. Covering events from the Athenian Navys stance in 411 B.C. against a tyrannical home government, to coups in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors, to twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book takes the reader on a gripping journey. Connecting the dots between these neglected events, Varol weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we thought we knew about military coups. In so doing, he tackles several baffling questions How can an event as undemocratic as a military coup lead to democracy? Why would imposing generals-armed with tanks and guns and all-voluntarily surrender power to civilian politicians? What distinguishes militaries that help build democracies from those that destroy them? Varols arguments made headlines across the globe in major media outlets and were cited critically in a public speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Written for a general audience, this book will entertain, challenge, and provoke, but more importantly, serve as a reminder of the imperative to question the standard narratives about our world and engage with all ideas, no matter how controversial.