The Stranger Within Your Gates


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The intellectual dilemma that converts posed to classical Jews played itself out in discussions of marriage, religious practice, inheritance of property, and much else: on the one hand, converts must be no different from native-born Israelites if the god of the Hebrew Bible is a universal deity; on the other hand, converts must be distinguishable from native-born members of the community if a divine covenant was made with Abraham's descendants.




The Stranger Within Your Gates


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This book is based on the author's longer study in French: "Les déracinés: Réfugiés et migrants dans le monde", Paris, 1985. Abstract in French (No. 1225) in “Refugee Abstracts”, vol. 4, No. 3, September 1985. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1) On the highways of fear; 2) On the paths of hunger; 3) The pain of being an outsider; 4) A challenge to Christians; 5) Witnessing to justice and service among strangers. Appendix 1: World refugee populations; Appendix 2: The refugee burden in 1984-1985; Appendix 3: World migrant workers map.










Within Our Gates


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"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.













Columbia University Quarterly


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Vol. 6 includes 150th anniversary number.