Community of Living Traditions
Our Sister Organization in Israel
- Interfaith Encounter Interfaith Encounter Association
A Bibliography of Jewish Nonviolence
Compilations from the Jewish Peace Fellowship
The Challenge of Shalom
Roots of Jewish Nonviolence
Abraham Cronbach
The Quest for Peace
The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School
Everett Gendler
Therefore Choose Life, in Roots of Jewish Nonviolence and in The Challenge of Shalom
The Pursuit of Peace: A Singular Commandment, in War and its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in Abrahamic Traditions
Lynn Gottlieb
Gaza blogs
Introduction to Torah of Nonviolence
MLK address 2010
On Reconciliation
Elie Holzer
The Use of Military Force in the Religious Zionist Ideology of Rabbi Yitzhak Ya'akov Reines and His Successors, in Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities
Reuven Kimelman
Nonviolence in the Talmud, in Roots of Jewish Nonviolence
Millard Lind
Yahweh is a Warrior, The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel.
Moshe Prager
Those Who Never Yielded. Translated by Y'hoshua Leiman
Internet download at www.marbitz.com
Brant Rosen
The Shalom Rav Blog http://rabbibrant.com
Henry Schwarzschild
Resignation from the Editorial Advisory Board of Sh'ma, 1982
Obituary New York Times, 1996
Steven Schwarzschild
Introduction, Roots of Jewish Nonviolence
Shalom, Challenge of Shalom
The Pursuit of the Ideal, The Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild
The Question of Jewish Ethics Today
On Power in Judaism
Theologians and the Bomb
Kalonymos Kalimish Shapira
Sacred Fire, Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942
Aaron Samuel Tamaret
Passover and Nonviolence, translated by Everett Gendler, in Roots of Jewish Nonviolence. http://www.shalomctr.org/node/136
Zionism and Judaism, translated by Everett Gendler, in the Challenge of Shalom. http://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles_detail.aspx?id=301
Evilyn Wilcock
Pacifism and the Jews
Impossible Pacifism: Jews, the Holocaust and Nonviolence, Challenge of Shalom
John Howard Yoder
The Politics of Jesus*
The Jewish Christian Schism Revisited.
http://theology.nd.edu/people/research/yoder-john/documents/THENONVIOLENCEOFJUDAISMFROMJEREMIAHTOHERTZL.pdf
Howard Zinn
Peoples History of the United States.
The Zinn Reader.
Stefan Zweig
Jewish Legends.
Jeremiah
What books and essays have led you towards Jewish nonviolence?
*Why is a book called The Politics of Jesus in a bibliography of Jewish Nonviolence? Because John Howard Yoder argued that nonviolence was not an innovation of Jesus but a major stream in Jewish thought, that predated Jesus by centuries and that was carried forward within Judaism, after Jesus, more thoroughly and consistently than it was in Christianity. He wrote his books for Mennonites who were under the impression that the differences between Christianity and Judaisms had something to do with Jesus's teachings on nonviolence. As so many Jews are under this same misimpression, Jews would benefit from reading Yoder too.
