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Finkelstein authored a number of books, including Tradition in the Making, Beliefs and Practices of Judaism, Pre-Maccabean Documents in the Passover Haggadah, Abot of Rabbi Nathan, ( a three volume series on The Pharisees ), and Akiba: Scholar, Saint and Martyr.
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Finkelstein and number
* Chapter 3: The Double Shakedown-in this chapter, Finkelstein claims that the number of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recognized by relief groups increased from c. 100, 000 in 1945 to nearly 1 million owing to definitional changes in who was considered to be a survivor.
* Morris minimized the number of expulsions: Finkelstein asserts that in the table in which Morris summarizes causes of abandonment, village by village, many cases of " military assault on settlement ( M )" should have been " expulsions ( E )".
Finkelstein claimed that in one instance Dershowitz refers to the same page number as Peters, although he is citing a different ( 1996 ) edition of the same source, in which the words appear on a different page.
Firstly, in a number of lists, tables and examples Finkelstein juxtaposes the historical evidence Peters presents, with extended quotations of the primary and secondary source material showing its original context.
Finkelstein (< font lang = he > פ ֿ ינק ( ע ) לש ׁ טײ ַ ן </ font >, < font lang = he > פינקלש ׁ ט ( י ) ין </ font >, < font lang = ru > Финкельштейн </ font >) is a German and Yiddish surname ( originated from German Karfunkelstein, a " carbuncle stone ") shared by a number of notable individuals:
On the other hand, Finkelstein contests the averaging procedure used in the Khirbet Qeiyafa dating, maintaining that, taken properly, the data reflect a lifespan for that site rather than a single date, and that the Khirbet Qeiyafa results " line up with the large number of measurements from late Iron I sites in both the north and south of Israel and support the Low Chronology.
Finkelstein and books
Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".
Hasia Diner has accused Peter Novick and Finkelstein of being " harsh critics of American Jewry from the left ," and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.
Business-driven IE is documented in the later books by Clive Finkelstein.
Finkelstein and including
In the 2005 book " Beyond Chutzpah ," Finkelstein cites 20 different instances where Dershowitz borrows quotations, including long quotations with ellipses in exactly the same place as in Joan Peters ' book.
* spacetime diagrams including Finkelstein diagram and Penrose diagram, by Andrew J. S. Hamilton
Finkelstein also had his share of Senate losses, including two by previous client James Buckley ( 1976, New York, and 1980, Connecticut ), and with Avi Nelson ( 1978, Massachusetts ).
Pataki's third gubernatorial campaign, in 2002, provided some fresh challenges to Finkelstein, including a contest for the Conservative Party of New York State nomination, a still-shrinking Republican base, and a strong third-party challenge from millionaire B. Thomas Golisano, running again on the Independence Party line.
In 1980, Yisrael Finkelstein, an archeologist from Bar-Ilan University, initiated four seasons of digs and many finds were revealed including coins, storage jars, and other artifacts.
Though some archaeologists agree with the consideration that the site was an altar compound ( though not constructed by Joshua ), and some ( including Israel Finkelstein ) at least agree that it was a cultic location ( though not necessarily involving an altar ), others believe that it was simply a farmhouse and / or the Biblical tower of Shechem.
Finkelstein and Judaism
Louis Finkelstein ( June 14, 1895, Cincinnati, Ohio – 29 November 1991 ) was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) and Conservative Judaism.
Finkelstein's leadership led Ari L. Goldman, in his obituary for Finkelstein in the New York Times, to describe Finkelstein as " the dominant leader of Conservative Judaism in the 20th century.
Finkelstein also established the seminary's Cantor's Institute, the Seminary College of Jewish Music, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities ( predecessor of the Graduate School ), and a West Coast branch of the seminary that later became the University of Judaism ( now the American Jewish University ).
Finkelstein and Documents
* Goren, Yuval, Naʾaman, Nadav, Mommsen, Hans and Finkelstein, Israel, “ Provenance Study and Re-evaluation of the Cuneiform Documents from the Egyptian Residency at Tel Aphek ”, Ä & L 16 ( 2006 ), pp. 161-171.
Finkelstein and Rabbi
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, scholar of the JTSA, wrote: " There are those who would think that we have but two alternatives, to reject or to accept the law, but in either case to treat it as a dead letter.
Guests have also included Former First Lady Julia Grant, Thomas Mann and religious leaders such as Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman, Reverend Francis Edward Clark.
Finkelstein and Nathan
Finley was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Isaac Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen ; died in 1986 as a British subject.
Finkelstein and three
He was one of only three people, along with Boaz Cohen and Louis Finkelstein, to ever to receive this degree from JTSA.
* Benny Morris versus Norman Finkelstein and Nur MasalhaThis took place in three articles in the Journal of Palestine Studies Vol.
' According to a book review of Beyond Chutzpah, written by Prof. Michael C. Desch in The American Conservative, " Finkelstein does not accuse Dershowitz of the wholesale lifting of someone else's words, but he does make a very strong case that Dershowitz has violated the spirit, if not the exact letter, of Harvard's prohibitions of the first three forms of plagiarism.
According to Norman Finkelstein, by the end of 1984 only three critical reviews had appeared, those by Finkelstein in In These Times ( September 5 – 11, 1984 ), Bill Farrell in the Journal of Palestine Studies ( Fall 1984 ) and Alexander Cockburn in The Nation ( October 13, 1984 ).
Newsweek reported in 1982 that " each of the President's top three advisers has his own numbers man: " Wirthlin became Edwin Meese's pollster, Teeter became James Baker's and now Finkelstein has become Michael Deaver's.
He was survived by his three children: Dolores Cavallaro Buscher, Paul Cavallaro and Anita Cavallaro Finkelstein ; and a granddaughter ; Andrea Finkelstein Sherman.
Finkelstein and series
Finkelstein reined in the series, returning to the serious legal cases that made the series famous.
Finkelstein and on
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.
Finkelstein states that his consciousness of " the Nazi holocaust " is rooted in his parents ' experiences in the Warsaw ghetto ; with the exception of his parents themselves, " every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis ".
Because of this, Finkelstein repeatedly asserts that " fraudulent " claims were made on Switzerland, while accounts and assets in the US and Israel were ignored.
Finkelstein claims the CRT was on course to vindicate the Swiss banks before it changed tack in order to " protect the blackmailers ' reputation ".
Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.
The chapter on him is entitled " Entering the Mainstream "-but Finkelstein considers that, were it not for the likes of Lipstadt, no one would ever have heard of Arthur Butz.
Finkelstein replied to the " hysterical " allegations by Novick on his homepage.
* Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies-focuses on interfaith relations and public affairs.
Finkelstein was born into a rabbinic family in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895.
Finkelstein served as the official Jewish representative to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's commission on peace, and in 1963 President John F. Kennedy sent him to Rome as part of an American delegation to the installation of Pope Paul VI.
* Excerpt from Michael Greenbaum's book on Finkelstein
However, following protests, which included a public protest in the center of campus, a petition campaign and outreach by alumni, students and faculty, Basset reversed his decision and allowed Finkelstein to speak on April 27, the last day of classes for the semester.
Norman Finkelstein, Nur Masalha and others argue that Morris has been too soft on the Israelis, often ignoring the force of his own evidence.
Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.
The Dershowitz – Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict in 2005.
In Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, published by University of California Press on August 28, 2005, Norman Finkelstein aimed to debunk The Case for Israel.
Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now !, Finkelstein also charged that Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read it.
Finkelstein argued in a letter to the Harvard Crimson published on October 3, 2003, that Dershowitz reproduced exactly two of Peters ' mistakes, and made one relevant mistake of his own.
" While still quoting Twain, although Dershowitz cited a different edition of Twain's Innocents Abroad than Joan Peters cites, Finkelstein continues, " the relevant quotes do not appear on these pages in the edition of Twain's book that Dershowitz cites.
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