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Trachtenberg reveals the fascinating implications of these differing modes of thought, including the striking observation that parallelism, processing ideas simultaneously on multiple tracks, requires moral judgment in order to discern which factors take precedence, while sequentiality precludes moral judgment, since all one can do is to question which ""first principle"" takes precedence in a given situation. Trachtenberg uses the contrast between sequentiality and parallelism to gain new insights into a variety of phenomena from anti-Semitism to Godel's dilemma (consistency versus completeness of thought) and to compare systems of thought throughout the ages as viewed through the works of prominent thinkers and writers, both Jewish and non-Jewish.

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Eliezer A. Trachtenberg, born in 1946 in Tula, Russia, grew up in Kishinev, Moldavia, in the former USSR. He holds an MS degree in control systems from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and a DSc in applied mathematics and computer engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is presently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Being interested in the humanities from an early age, he started his systematic studies in Judaism as a member of the underground Zionist organization in Leningrad. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for Zionist activities and classed as an especially dangerous state criminal at the Kishinev trial in 1971; at the same time he was honored with the title of Prisoner of Zion in the State of Israel. He has three children, many grandchildren, and currently lives with his wife in a suburb of Philadelphia.

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