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Putting God First tackles the challenge of maintaining Jewish identity in a world dominated by Western humanism. It argues that the Holocaust reflects more broadly on contemporary humanism than the Jewish world has ever dared to acknowledge.

Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, andpeace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him tosearch for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages ofpeace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy and rabbiniclaw, Isaacs draws on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, AbrahamJoshua Heschel, and Martin Buber, among others, to prop...