Cults and the Jewish Community: Representative Works of Jewish Anti-Cult Literature (Cults and New Religions) - Hardcover
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Contents: Introduction; Missionary and Cult Movements / Annette Daum; Jews and the Cults: A Bibliography / Jack Nusan Porter; Kids in Cults / Irvin Doress and Jack N. Porter; From Hinduism Back to Judaism / M. Glazerson; Statement on Jews and Israel / Sun Myung Moon; 'The Children of Cults' / Rodney Clapp; 'Cultists Held No Threats to Jews' / The Washington Post, March 25, 1977; 'Science, Sin, and Sponsorship' / Irving Louis Horowitz; 'The Rev. Moon Phenomenon' / Ira Perlstein; Interview with Rabbi Yehudah Fine; 'Identity Status of Jewish Youth Pre- and Post-Cult Involvement' / Idy B. Gitelson and Edward J. Reed; 'Anybody's Kid: Cults and the Jewish Connection' / Robin Warshaw; 'New Target of the Cults: You' / Marcia R. Rudin; 'One Man's Story' / Mark Reiter; 'Statement in Opposition to Proposed Bills' / The American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress, May 27, 1981; 'Religious Freedom for All, a Jewish Perspective' / Samuel Rabinove; 'Jews, Cults and Apostates' / Allen S. Maller; 'Why Jews Join Cults' / Joseph Aaron
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Cults and the Jewish Community: Representative Works of Jewish Anti-Cult Literature (Cults and New Religions: Sources for Study of Nonconventional Religious Groups in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America: A Collection of Reprinted Books, Pamphlets, Articles, and Ephemera Documenting the Development of Nonconventional Religion in America)
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Scarce oversized cloth hardcover, [20] + 390 pages. Weight 940g. Ex-university reference library (stamped 'withdrawn'), most library markings including external stamps on outer page edges scribbled over in black marker. Otherwise book is clean, untanned, with unmarked text, firmly bound. Boards show faint handling marks, a bit of scuffing to edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "The background to the documents reprinted here consists of the entire history of the dismal relationships between Christians and Jews since the 1st century C.E. Until very recently, these relationships have generally been antagonistic, hostile, and cold at best; Christian church policy was more often than not based on the assumption that Jews no longer had a right to exist as a separate autonomous religious community. Hence Jews were almost always subjected to both formal and informal pressures aimed at forcing them to convert to Christianity - in addition to the periods when they were subjected to active persecution and massacres. As a result, Jews have generally perceived any 'pressure to convert' as a not very subtle form of anti-Semitism and of persecution, and have responded to it by defending themselves against this perceived attack as best they can in their current circumstances. It has only been since WW2 in the USA that Jews have been able to use the full panoply of legal measures to defend themselves against the various sorts of individual and institutionalized anti-Semitism that still exist in America." (from the Introduction) --- Contents: Introduction; Missionary and Cult Movements / Annette Daum; Jews and the Cults: A Bibliography / Jack Nusan Porter; Kids in Cults / Irvin Doress and Jack N. Porter; From Hinduism Back to Judaism / M. Glazerson; Statement on Jews and Israel / Sun Myung Moon; 'The Children of Cults' / Rodney Clapp; 'Cultists Held No Threats to Jews' / The Washington Post, March 25, 1977; 'Science, Sin, and Sponsorship' / Irving Louis Horowitz; 'The Rev. Moon Phenomenon' / Ira Perlstein; Interview with Rabbi Yehudah Fine; 'Identity Status of Jewish Youth Pre- and Post-Cult Involvement' / Idy B. Gitelson and Edward J. Reed; 'Anybody's Kid: Cults and the Jewish Connection' / Robin Warshaw; 'New Target of the Cults: You' / Marcia R. Rudin; 'One Man's Story' / Mark Reiter; 'Statement in Opposition to Proposed Bills' / The American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress, May 27, 1981; 'Religious Freedom for All, a Jewish Perspective' / Samuel Rabinove; 'Jews, Cults and Apostates' / Allen S. Maller; 'Why Jews Join Cults' / Joseph Aaron. Seller Inventory # 009720
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