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Notes: Chapter 6 - Jews 1 Lowell W. Livezey notes that the Union of U.S. Hebrew Congregations, which represents Reform Judaism, "is the only major Jewish denomination that is active in the international human rights movement, and even its work in the human rights field is considerably less that that undertaken by cultural or 'secular' Jewish agencies such as the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, B'nai B'rith International, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith." Livezey, "US Religious Organizations and the International Human Rights Movement," Human Rights Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1989):42.2 Daniel F. Polish, "Judaism and Human Rights," in Human Rights in Religious Traditions (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1982), 40.3 Ibid., 46. Abraham Kaplan argues that while Judaism places moral responsibility upon the individual, it does not support an individualistic understanding of human rights. Kaplan, "Human Relations and Human Rights in Judaism," in The Philosophy of Human Rights: International Perspectives, ed. Alan S. Rosenbaum (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980), 57-59.4 David Daube, "The Rabbis and Philo on Human Rights," in Essays on Human Rights: Contemporary Rights and Jewish Perspectives, ed. David Sidorsky (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 234-46.5 S. D. Goitein, "Human Rights and Jewish Thought and Life in the Middle Ages," in Essays on Human Rights, 249.6 Jacob Katz, "Post-Emancipation Development of Rights: Liberalism and Universalism," in Essays on Human Rights, 292.7 Daniel F. Polish, "Judaism and Human Rights," in Human Rights in Religious Traditions, 40. See R. J. Zwi Werblosky, "Judaism and Human Rights," in Human Rights Teaching 2, no. 1 (1981), 7-9.8 Michael Fishbane, "The Image of the Human and the Rights of the Individual in Jewish Tradition," in Human Rights and the World's Religions, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), 17.9 Daniel F. Polish, "Judaism and Human Rights," in Human Rights in Religious Traditions, 40.10 Ibid., 47-48.11 Ibid., 48.12 Ibid.13 Ibid., 49.14 Ibid., 50.15 Ibid.16 William A. Irwin, "The Rule of a Higher Law," in Judaism and Human Rights, ed. Milton R. Konvitz (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1972), 101. This book is copyrighted by the B'nai B'rith Commission on Adult Jewish Education.17 Ibid., 101-02.18 Lord Acton, "Kingship under the Judgment of God," in Judaism and Human Rights, 90.19 Milton R. Konvitz, "Editor's Note," in Judaism and Human Rights, 88.20 Quoted in Milton R. Konvitz, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," in Judaism and Human Rights, 138.21 Emanuel Rackman, "Judaism and Equality," in Judaism and Human Rights, 33.22 Milton R. Konvitz, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," in Judaism and Human Rights, 124-25.23 Ibid., 139.24 Emanuel Rackman, "Judaism and Equality," in Judaism and Human Rights, 34.25 Robert Gordis, The Root and the Branch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), 81.26 Lenn Evan Goodman, "Equality and Human Rights: The Lockean and Judaic Views," Judaism 25 (Summer 1976):361-62.27 Ibid., 360.28 Ibid.29 Emanuel Rackman, "Talmudic Insights on Human Rights," Judaism 1 (1952):158-63.30 Herbert Chanan Brichto, "The Hebrew Bible on Human Rights," in Essays on Human Rights, 225.31 Milton R. Konvitz, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," in Judaism and Human Rights, 121.32 Quoted in Milton Konvitz, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," in Judaism and Human Rights, 121.33 Milton Konvitz, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," in Judaism and Human Rights, 121.34 Michael Fishbane, "The Image of the Human and the Rights of the Individual in Jewish Tradition," in Human Rights and the World's Religions, 31.35 Haim H. Cohn, Human Rights in Jewish Law (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1984), vii. This book was published for the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London.36 Ibid., 1.37 Ibid.38 Ibid., 18.39 Ibid., 18-19.40 Ibid., 20.41 Ibid., 21.42 Ibid.43 Ibid., v.44 Ibid., 157.45 Ibid., 160.46 Ibid., 165-66.47 Ibid., 166.48 Ibid., 167.49 Ibid., 170-71.50 Ibid., 189.51 Ibid., 198, 208 and 217.52 Article 29.2, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Human Rights in International Law, 13. Quoted in Haim H. Cohn, Human Rights in Jewish Law, 231.53 Haim H. Cohn, Human Rights in Jewish Law, 231.54 Ibid.55 Ibid.56 Ibid.57 Louis Henkin, "Human Rights: Reappraisal and Readjustment," in Essays on Human Rights, 87.58 Isaac Lewin, "On the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, Including His Own" (21 January 1963), in Ten Years of Hope: Addresses before the United Nations (New York: Shengold Publishers, 1971), 30.59 Michael Meerson-Aksenov, "The Influence of the Jewish Exodus on the Democratization of Soviet Society," trans. Gloria Donen Sosin, in Essays on Human Rights, 153.60 Ibid., 152.61 See also Yoran Dinstein, "Soviet Jewry and International Human Rights," in Essays on Human Rights, 126-43, and Paul Litvinov, "The Human-Rights Movement in the Soviet Union," in Essays on Human Rights, 113-25. Similarly, it is argued that the right to emigrate is the only protection Jews have in societies like Iraq. See Mitchell Knisbacher, "The Jews of Iraq and the International Protection of the Rights of Minorities (1856-1976)," in Essays on Human Rights, 157-78.62 David Sidorsky, "Introduction," in Essays on Human Rights, xxxiv. He attributes this to a letter by S. French to Herzl.63 Leslie C. Green, "Jewish Issues on the Human-Rights Agenda in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," in Essays on Human Rights, 298.64 Jacob L. Talmon, "Mission and Testimony: The Universal Significance of Modern Anti-Semitism," in Essays on Human Rights, 359. Jews argue that Israel's human rights record is better than their neighbors and that Israel has acted with restraint in the face of extreme provocation in the occupied territories. See Jerome J. Shestack, "Human Rights Issues in Israel's Rule of the West Bank and Gaza," in Essays on Human Rights, 193-209. To its credit, the Jacob Blaustein Institute has funded the Association for Civil Rights in Israel which defends the rights of Palestinian residents of the West Bank. Lowell W. Livezey, "US Religious Organizations and the International Human Rights Movement," Human Rights Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1989:48-49.65 Walter Laquer, "The Issue of Human Rights," in Essays on Human Rights, 9-10.66 Daniel P. Moynihan, "The Significance of the Zionism-as-Racism Resolution for International Human Rights," in Essays in Human Rights, 43.67 Ibid., 43-45.68 Sidney Liskofsky, "The United Nations and Human Rights: 'Alternative Approaches'," in Essays on Human Rights, 48. See Richard H. Schwartz, "Human Rights and Obligations," Judaism and Global Survival (New York: Atara Publishing Co., 1987).69 Elie Wiesel, "Wiesel's Speech: 'This Honor Belongs to All the Survivors'," New York Times, 1 December 1986, A-8. At the opening of a photo exhibit entitled "Auschwitz: A Crime against Mankind," on 10 December 1985, Human Rights Day, Wiesel said: "We remember Auschwitz for the sake of all victims everywhere who suffer. We remember our hunger so as to eliminate starvation today. We remember our anguish so as to proclaim the right of men and women everywhere to live without fear." Quoted in "Auschwitz Exhibit Underscores United Nations Commitment to Human Rights," UN Chronicle 23 (February 1986):93. The dedication of Human Rights and the World's Religions begins: "For Elie Wiesel, eloquent advocate for the human rights of all human beings."70 Ibid. |
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