Ruth R. Wisse
Jews and Power
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Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power and
demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets.
Jews and Power contains much information in few pages and offers a simple argument: Zionism is the solution to Jewish powerlessness; Israel is the guarantor of the Jews’ safety. Further, the Jewish nation’s resumption of sovereignty in 1948 created opportunities for the Jews to bring benefits to humanity as a whole.