Confronting Hate
The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice, and Religious Reconciliation
Deborah Hart Strober ; Gerald S. Strober
- In
- this
- biography,
- Gerald
- and
- Deborah
- Strober
- draw
- from
- original
- source
- materials
- and
- numerous
- interviews
- to
- detail
- the
- life
- and
- career
- of
- the
- esteemed
- Rabbi
- Marc
- Tanenbaum,
- a
- seminal
- 20th
- century
- figure
- in
- interfaith
- relations
- in
- the
- US
- and
- around
- the
- world.From
- his
- position
- as
- Director
- of
- Interreligious
- Affairs
- at
- the
- American
- Jewish
- Committee,
- Rabbi
- Tanenbaum
- was
- deeply
- involved
- in
- the
- historic
- Vatican
- II
- Council,
- which
- promulgated
- a
- landmark
- encyclical
- on
- Catholic-Jewish
- relations.
- Rabbi
- Tanenbaum
- also
- was
- one
- of
- the
- few
- Jewish
- leaders
- who
- worked
- closely
- with
- Reverend
- Billy
- Graham
- and
- other
- evangelicals.
- He
- worked
- tirelessly
- as
- a
- civil
- rights
- activist
- and
- was
- active
- in
- the
- cause
- of
- Soviet
- Jewry,
- as
- well.Confronting
- Hate
- details
- this
- esteemed
- career
- and
- his
- interactions
- with
- the
- likes
- of
- television
- legends
- Norman
- Lear,
- Don
- Hewitt,
- and
- Franco
- Zeffirelli;
- Jesse
- Jackson;
- Martin
- Luther
- King,
- Jr.;
- and
- several
- US
- presidents,
- from
- Dwight
- D.
- Eisenhower
- to
- George
- H.W.
- Bush.
- This
- book
- leaves
- no
- stone
- unturned
- in
- covering
- the
- public
- and
- private
- aspects
- of
- the
- life
- of
- “the
- human
- rights
- rabbi.”The
- authors
- bring
- to
- light
- the
- immense
- international
- influence
- that
- Rabbi
- Tanenbaum
- has
- even
- today,
- more
- than
- twenty-five
- years
- after
- his passing.
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