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American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

Melvin I. Urofsky

It caught on in Europe but was moribund in the United States until World War I. Melvin I. Urofsky shows how the Zionist movement was Americanized by Louis D. Brandeis and other reformers.
Lethal judgments: assisted suicide and American law

Lethal judgments: assisted suicide and American law

Melvin I. Urofsky

In this concise and gracefully written overview of one of the most complex and contentious areas of American law, noted constitutional scholar Melvin Urofsky discusses the tangled legal, historical, ethical, and medical issues related to ...
Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's ...

Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's ...

Melvin I. Urofsky

Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so.
The Warren Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

The Warren Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

Melvin I. Urofsky

Explores the era, justices, key events, and decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

Melvin Urofsky

A full-scale portrait of the early twentieth-century Supreme Court justice seeks to distinguish his personal life from his achievements as a reformer and jurist, offering additional insight into his role in the development of pro bono legal ...
Religious Freedom: Rights and Liberties Under the Law

Religious Freedom: Rights and Liberties Under the Law

Melvin I. Urofsky

This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion. * Four chapters discuss the development of religious freedom from its roots in ...
Midrash on American Jewish History

Midrash on American Jewish History

Henry L. Feingold

This book addresses itself to those issues right at the top of the American Jewish agenda, puts them into historical perspective, and interprets them with uncommonly good common sense.” — Melvin I. Urofsky, Chair, Department of History, ...
A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times of ...

A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times of ...

Melvin I. Urofsky

Louis Marshall to Jacob Schiff, 24 April 1920, and Schiff to Bernard Richards, 24 April 1920, Schiff MSS; Julius Simon to Zionist Bureau, London, 7 May 1920, London Office Records. 21. New York Times, 31 May 1920. 22. SSW, Challenging ...
The French Review

The French Review

James Frederick Mason

New York University Charles Affron Yokbn, Melvin B. Claude Tillier. (Twayne World Author Series.) Boston: Twayne, 1976. Pp. 143. This is a straightforward work of literary rehabilitation. Melvin Yoken makes no bones about it: Tillier is an  ...
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

Brent Holcomb

BOOK REVIEWS Henry Rice (1717-1818) The Pioneer Tennessee Gristmlller, and his Twelve Children by Melvin Weaver Little. 312 pages, soft cover, indexed. Price $12.95 postpaid from Melvin Weaver Little, 924 20th St., South, Arlington, ...
Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Melvin Delgado

In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services.
Practical Pain Management

Practical Pain Management

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2d Damages $1006, 9 PERSONAL INJURY: ACTION, DEFENSES, DAMAGES $3.04.1[2][c] (Louis R. Frumer & Melvin I. Friedman, eds. 1998). 14.9 PERSONAL INJURY: ACTION, DEFENSES, DAMAGES §3.04[2][c] (Louis R. Frumer & Melvin  ...
The Cry Of The Wolf

The Cry Of The Wolf

Melvin Burgess

It was a mistake for Ben to tell the Hunter that there were still wolves in Surrey.

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