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Part of the Jewish Encounter series
One of the worlds best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule of law, and following the biblical command to pursue justice.
The Hebrew Bibles two great examples of advocacy on behalf of problematic defendantsAbraham trying to convince God not to destroy the people of Sodom, and Moses trying to convince God not to destroy the golden-calf-worshipping Children of Israelestablished the template for Jewish lawyers for the next 4,500 years. Whether because throughout history Jews have found themselves unjustly accused of crimes ranging from deicide to ritual child murder to treason, or because the biblical exhortation that justice, justice, shall you pursue has been implanted in the Jewish psyche, Jewish lawyers have been at the forefront in battles against tyranny, in advocating for those denied due process, in negotiating for just and equitable solutions to complex legal problems, and in efforts to ensure a fair trial for anyone accused of a crime.
Dershowitz profiles Jewish lawyers well-known and unheralded, admired and excoriated, victorious and defeatedand, of course, gives us some glimpses into the gung-ho practice of law, Dershowitz-style. Louis Brandeis, Theodor Herzl, Judah Benjamin, Max Hirschberg, Ren Cassin, Bruno Kreisky, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Irwin Cotler are just a few of the idol smashers, advocates, collaborators, rescuers, and deal makers who helped to change history. Dershowitzs thoughts on the future of the Jewish lawyer are presented with the same insight, shrewdness, and candor that are the hallmarks of his more than four decades of writings on the law and how it is (and should be!) practiced.
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THE LIFE OF DAVID Robert Pinsky
MAIMONIDES Sherwin B. Nuland
BARNEY ROSS Douglas Century
BETRAYING SPINOZA Rebecca Goldstein
EMMA LAZARUS Esther Schor
THE WICKED SON David Mamet
MARC CHAGALL Jonathan Wilson
JEWS AND POWER Ruth R. Wisse
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adam Kirsch
RESURRECTING HEBREW Ilan Stavans
THE JEWISH BODY Melvin Konner
RASHI Elie Wiesel
A FINE ROMANCE David Lehman
YEHUDA HALEVI Hillel Halkin
HILLEL Joseph Telushkin
BURNT BOOKS Rodger Kamenetz
THE EICHMANN TRIAL Deborah E. Lipstadt
SACRED TRASH Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
BEN-GURION Shimon Peres with David Landau
WHEN GENERAL GRANT EXPELLED THE JEWS Jonathan D. Sarna
THE BOOK OF JOB Harold S. Kushner
THE WORLDS OF SHOLEM ALEICHEM Jeremy Dauber
THE RISE OF ABRAHAM CAHAN Seth Lipsky
MENACHEM BEGIN Daniel Gordis
ABRAHAM Alan M. Dershowitz
BIROBIJAN Masha Gessen
JUDAH MACCABEE Jeffrey Goldberg
THE DAIRY RESTAURANT Ben Katchor
FROM PASHAS TO PARIAHS Lucette Lagnado
YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS David Margolick
MRS. FREUD Daphne Merkin
MESSIANISM Leon Wieseltier
Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israels Just War Against Hamas
Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law
The Trials of Zion
The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza
The Case Against Israels Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
Is There a Right to Remain Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11
Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence
Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights
America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation
The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved
The Case for Israel
America Declares Independence
Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge
Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age
Letters to a Young Lawyer
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election2000
Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law
Just Revenge
Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis
The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case
The Abuse Excuse: And Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of Responsibility
The Advocates Devil
Contrary to Popular Opinion
Chutzpah
Taking Liberties: A Decade of Hard Cases, Bad Laws, and Bum Raps
Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Blow Case
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Psychoanalysis: Psychiatry and Law (with Joseph Goldstein and Jay Katz)
Copyright 2015 by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dershowitz, Alan M., author.
Abraham : the worlds first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer / Alan M. Dershowitz.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8052-4293-5 (hardcover : alk. paper). ISBN 978-0-8052-4331-4 (eBook).
1. JewsLegal status, laws, etc.History. 2. Jewish lawyersHistory. 3. Abraham (Biblical patriarch). I. Title.
K 3242. D 47 2015 340.092'3924dc23 2015004649
eBook ISBN9780805243314
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Cover image: Abraham by Joseph Schonmon Photo: Sedmak/iStock/Getty Images
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To Irwin Cotlera modern-day Abrahamand to all courageous lawyers, Jewish and non-Jewish, who boldly confront injustice and who aggressively demand a single standard of justice
A braham, the worlds first Jew, was also the worlds first lawyer, arguing with God on behalf of the doomed sinners of Sodom. He was thus the first in a long line of Jewish lawyers. Joseph soon followed, serving as a counsel to the powerful, as many Jewish lawyers have done since. But Abraham was the first, and this book is about him and his progeny: the numerous Jewish lawyers whofor better or worse, but in my view mostly betterhave changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule of law, and following the biblical command to pursue justice.
The story of Abraham is the account of a complex man whose actions and inactions reflect the very different archetypes of the Jewish lawyer over time and place. No one knows, of course, whether the Abraham we know from the Bible ever really existed or whether he is a mythical or composite figure. Nor would it ever be possible to challenge the biblical account of Abraham historically, In any event, it really doesnt matter, unless one is a biblical literalist. Neither does it matter, for purposes of this book, whether the Bible was written by the singular hand of God or by multiple human authors. What matters is that the biblical Abraham has been and remains one of the most influential characters in history, whether or not he was an actual historical figure. His story stands as a cornerstone of three great religions and has influenced, and continues to influence, billions of people. Abraham mattersto Jews, to Christians, to Muslims, and to all who study the Bible or the Quran. And so this book will treat the biblical narrative as gospel (or, as lawyers might put it, the transcript of testimony).
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