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Jewish History, Jewish Religion First Edition Edition

by Israel Shahak (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0745308180
ISBN-10: 074530818X
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Product Details

  • Series: Pluto Middle Eastern Studies
  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Pluto Press; First Edition edition (December 1, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 074530818X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745308180
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.6 x 12.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,740,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsan important albeit flawed analysis
By Brenda Teese on October 25, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Israel Shahak was a bright star in a luminous, vibrant cohort -- the Israeli Peace Movement, now sadly disappeared. What happened to them anyway? I imagine some of them died off, like Shahak. Some have quietly gone to ground, having lost the battle. Others undoubtedly left Israel, part of the one million out of an already small population now living abroad; these would be like the liberal American Southerners who left home during the early 20th century, fleeing the oppressive racial culture of that time and place.

I think the failed Israeli Peace Movement is the proper context in which to read this rather disturbing book. Shahak does not provide a balanced or even nuanced account. Not one word on the positive aspects of Judaism or the undeniable suffering of the Jewish people. But we have already heard from that side, along with demonic descriptions of Islamic fundamentalist states. So one could say that Shahak balances the account overall. He shows us how anti-gentilism balances anti-semitism. He shows us how the Jewish State is as malign as the Islamic State. He shows us how living under Talmudic Law is as oppressive as living under Sharia Law, and then he gives us a few examples of Talmudic Law still alive and well in modern day Israel.

However, he writes a far from perfect analysis. The reason I marked the book down is because of my strong disagreement with what he wrote on the last page: "How can we explain the enthusiasm displayed by so many American rabbis in support of Martin Luther King, compared with their lack of support for the rights of Palestinians?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Real Jewish Religion
By john thames on February 24, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Many Jewish dissidents throughout the centuries have opened the Pandora's Box of the real Jewish religion. Nicholas Donin, the Rabbi Pfferkorn, etc.Israel Shahak is the latest to reveal (if only partially) the true nature of the Talmudic teachings. The usual excuses of mistaken interpretation, passages taken out of context, etc. shall be trotted out. Nevertheless, the dual logic and anti-gentile passages are there for all to ponder.

Shahak had the good fortune to write in the age of the internet so that the usual techniques of obfuscation and suppression are less effective than in past centuries. Nevertheless, as always in these matters, there will be initial hysteria followed by bury the dirt. Those who read Shahakk should also read Pranaitis, Eisenmenger, etc. to get a fuller flavor of the ugly matters under discussion. They might also look at Benjamin Freedman's "Facts Are Facts".

But the real truths about Orthodox Judaism are fully documented. Shahak, to his credit, has driven one more nail into the coffin of a thoroughly disgusting and degenerate religion.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat is Judaism?
By zonaras on December 25, 2002
Format: Hardcover
"Noam Chomsky endorses a book that says Jews worship Satan!" As part of the neo-conservative backlash against the radical left, that was one of the slanders thrown around that I've read. How can a book by a secular humanist, left-wing Jewish holocaust survivor be hated, suppressed and ignored by the secular humanist, liberal establishment? By criticizing the Orthodox Jewish religion, especially in the policies that this religion exerts on the State of Israel today. _Jewish History, Jewish Religion_ is a short expose written in a somewhat sarcastic tone. Following an introduction by Gore Vidal on the questionable machinations of the Zionist lobby in the United States, Shahak's book is divided into several parts. The first chapter describes the State of Israel as a "closed utopia," catering to Jewish imperial interests at the expense of the Palestinians and other non-Jewish people. The second chapter, "Prejudice and Prevarication" discusses the totalitarian nature and ultra-exclusionist nature of classical Judaism until the 19th century, and of the Zionist attempts to restore Jewry to this state. "Orthodoxy and Interpretation" is the most interesting chapter, especially in its summary of the nature of the Talmud's arbitrary and absurd laws and cabalistic Jewish mysticism. It has something to do with the Son and the Daughter of the divine parents being kept apart from their sexual union by Satan. The rituals and prayers offered by Jews are supposed to distract Satan and to encourage the Son and Daughter to have intercourse. The Babylonian Talmud is recognized as Judaism's actual authoritative scripture, not the Hebrew Old Testament.Read more ›
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