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

by Dershowitz, Alan M., author.

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New York : Nextbooks/Schocken, c2015.

Abraham (Biblical patriarch)

Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.

Jewish lawyers -- History.

9780805242935 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

0805242937 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Jewish encounters.

xv, 187 pages ; 23 cm.

Introduction: The Jewish lawyer -- Part I. The biblical narrative : the lawyer Abraham. 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 -- Part II. In the footsteps of Abraham : Jews on trial, as defendants and defenders. The trial of Jesus, the conviction of the Jews, and the blood libel -- Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Rudolf Slansky, Anatoly Sharansky, and the nation-state of the Jewish people on trial -- The Jewish lawyer as Abrahamic idol smasher, advocate, collaborator, rescuer, and deal maker -- Epilogue: The future of Abraham's descendants.

"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.

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