Abraham : the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer / Alan M. Dershowitz.
2015
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Author
Title
Abraham : the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer / Alan M. Dershowitz.
Published
New York : Nextbooks/Schocken, [2015]
Call Number
K3242 .D47 2015
ISBN
9780805242935 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0805242937 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780805243314 (eBook)
0805243313
0805242937 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780805243314 (eBook)
0805243313
Description
xv, 187 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902854303
Summary
"The best-selling author of Taking the Stand presents a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers to profile influential figures from the biblical Abraham and Louis Brandeis through Max Hirschberg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,"--Novelist.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Jewish Lawyer
xi
pt. I
The Biblical Narrative: The Lawyer Abraham
1.
God Meets Abram---and So Do We
3
2.
God Tests Abraham and Abraham Passes---at Least the First Test
12
2.
Abraham Refuses to Argue with God and with His Wife over the Lives of His Children---Failing God's Next Test
28
4.
Abraham Negotiates to Buy a Burial Cave for Sarah
52
pt. II
In the Footsteps of Abraham: Jews on Trial, as Defendants and Defenders Introduction
57
5.
The Trial of Jesus, the Conviction of the Jews, and the Blood Libel
60
6.
Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Rudolf Slansky, Anatoly Sharansky, and the Nation-State of the Jewish People on Trial
65
7.
The Jewish Lawyer as Abrahamic Idol Smasher, Advocate, Collaborator, Rescuer, and Deal Maker
82
Epilogue: The Future of Abraham's Descendants
122
Acknowledgments
137
Notes
139
Index
179