Abraham
Subtitle: the world's first (but certainly not last) Jewish lawyer
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
Edition: First edition.
Series: Jewish encounters; Jewish encounters
Publisher: Nextbook/Schocken
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780805242935
Subjects: Jewish lawyers; Jews; Legal status, laws; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Jewish lawyer; title: God meets Abram-and so do we; title: God tests Abraham and Abraham passes-at least the first test; title: Abraham refuses to argue with God and with his wife over the lives of his children-failing god's next test; title: Abraham negotiates to buy a burial cave for Sarah; title: The trial of Jesus, the conviction of the Jews, and the blood libel; title: Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Rudolf Slansky, Anatoly Sharansky, and the nation-state of the Jewish people on trial; title: The Jewish lawyer as Abrahamic idol smasher, advocate, collaborator, rescuer, and deal-maker; title: Epilogue : the future of Abraham's descendants.