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The Jews are one of the great enigmas of history What makes them unique? What has given them their resilience, their power of survival and their ability to adapt to radically new conditions without losing their identity? What combination of religious faith, social organization, intellectual toughness and poetic imagination constitutes Jewishness? Eighteen eminent scholars address these questions in this illustrated survey of Jewish history from its earliest days to the appearance of Zionism and the foundation of Israel. Equal weight is given to Judaica and to the ways in which Judaism has coped with the challenges of modernity..
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This edition of Elie Kedourie's Nationalism brings back into print one of the classic texts of our times. With great elegance and lucidity, the author traces the philosophical foundations of the nationalist doctrine, the conditions which gave rise to it, and the political consequences of its spread in Europe and elsewhere over the past two centuries. As Isaiah Berlin wrote of the original edition, "Kedourie's account of these ideas and their effect is exemplary: clear, learned and just."

In a new introduction the author reflects upon the origins of the book and the relationship of his argument to contemporary nationalist conflicts..
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Turkey's modern history has been full of instability and continuing contradictions. The nature of national identity and its relationship to the state continues to be an issue and Turks are still faced with the conflict between the twin goals of "joining the West" and preserving their own cultural forms. The emergence of Islamicism as a political ideology has helped to shape politics in Turkey, as it has had to compete in the political market place with other, secularist, parties and to play the game according to the rules of secular democracy, rather than a millenarian revolutionary vision. However, there are growing doubts as to whether secular constitutional democracy is safely anchored within the system of government in the country..
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Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouched by the democratic revolution that has swept across Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Despotism or religious fundamentalism continue to be in control of most of the Middle Eastern countries. This book, by one of the world's foremost scholars of the modern Middle East, aims to explain and analyse the phenomenon..
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Seventy-five years after the establishment of the republic, Turkish society has shed many of its shackles Yet Turkey's modern history has been full of instability and continuing contradictions. The nature of national identity and its relationship to the state remains a subject of debate, and Turks are still faced with the conflict between the twin goals of joining the West, and preserving their own cultural forms. This collection examines the issues which have shaped, and will continue to influence, Turkey's foreign and domestic policy: the legacy of the Ottoman empire, the concept of citizenship, secular democracy, Islamicism and civil-military relations..
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