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Author Dershowitz, Alan M., author.

Title Abraham : the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer / Alan M. Dershowitz.

Publication Info. New York : Nextbook/Schocken, [2015]
©2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  340.092 DERSHOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  340.092 DER    Storage
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  340.092 DER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  340.0923 DER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 187 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-177) and index.
Contents Introduction : the Jewish lawyer -- God meets Abram-and so do we -- God tests Abraham and Abraham passes-at least the first test -- Abraham refuses to argue with God and with his wife over the lives of his children-failing god's next test -- Abraham negotiates to buy a burial cave for Sarah -- The trial of Jesus, the conviction of the Jews, and the blood libel -- Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Rudolf Slansky, Anatoly Sharansky, and other Jews on trial -- The Jewish lawyer as Abrahamic idol smasher, advocate, collaborator, rescuer, and deal-maker -- Epilogue : the future of Abraham's descendants.
Summary "The best-selling author of Taking the Stand presents a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers to profile influential figures from the biblical Abraham and Louis Brandeis through Max Hirschberg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,"--Novelist.
Subject Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
Jewish lawyers -- History.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) (OCoLC)fst00037599
Jewish lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00982819
Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00983297
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780805242935 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0805242937 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780805243314 (ebook)
0805243313 (ebook)
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