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008    150204s2015    nyu      b    001 0 eng   
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100 1  Dershowitz, Alan M.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Abraham :|bthe world's first (but certainly not last) 
       Jewish lawyer /|cAlan M. Dershowitz. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bNextbook/Schocken,|c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015. 
300    xv, 187 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-177) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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. 
600 07 Abraham|c(Biblical patriarch)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00037599 
600 10 Abraham|c(Biblical patriarch) 
650  0 Jews|xLegal status, laws, etc.|xHistory. 
650  0 Jewish lawyers|xHistory. 
650  7 Jewish lawyers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00982819 
650  7 Jews|xLegal status, laws, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00983297 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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