The consequences of ethnic cleansing; the Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews part 1: the social structure and major features of classical Judaism, the Muslim world, Christian Spain, Poland, Anti-Jewish persecution, modern anti-semitism,the Zionist reform, confronting the past; the Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews part 2 - prejudice and prevarication, structure of the legal edifice, interpretations of the Bible, structure of the Talmud.
Saadia Toor is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
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