Rethinking European Jewish History
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Author | : Jeremy Cohen |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2008-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800345410 |
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The major cultural, ideological, and social changes that have occurred in Europe in the past century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases, and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of this reassessment. It points to a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.
Author | : Jonathan Dekel-Chen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253004780 |
Download Anti-Jewish Violence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia's early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia.
Author | : Jonathan Elukin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2013-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691162069 |
Download Living Together, Living Apart Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their local communities despite recurrent expressions of hatred against them. Elukin shows that Jews and Christians coexisted more or less peacefully for much of the Middle Ages, and that the violence directed at Jews was largely isolated and did not undermine their participation in the daily rhythms of European society. The extraordinary picture that emerges is one of Jews living comfortably among their Christian neighbors, working with Christians, and occasionally cultivating lasting friendships even as Christian culture often demonized Jews. As Elukin makes clear, the expulsions of Jews from England, France, Spain, and elsewhere were not the inevitable culmination of persecution, but arose from the religious and political expediencies of particular rulers. He demonstrates that the history of successful Jewish-Christian interaction in the Middle Ages in fact laid the social foundations that gave rise to the Jewish communities of modern Europe. Elukin compels us to rethink our assumptions about this fascinating period in history, offering us a new lens through which to appreciate the rich complexities of the Jewish experience in medieval Christendom.
Author | : Aaron W. Hughes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199356815 |
Download Rethinking Jewish Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.
Author | : Nancy Sinkoff |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2024-06-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814349692 |
Download A Jew in the Street Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These investigations illuminate the entangled experiences of Jews who sought to balance the pull of communal, religious, and linguistic traditions with the demands and allure of full participation in European life.
Author | : Robert D. Cherry |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742546660 |
Download Rethinking Poles and Jews Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland.
Author | : Harvey Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134002343 |
Download Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Harvey Mitchell’s book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire’s treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows how Voltaire’s nearly total antipathy to Judaism is best understood by stressing his self-regard as the author of an enlightened and rational universal history, which found Judaism’s memory of its past incoherent, and, in addition, failed to meet the criteria of objective history—a project in which he failed. Calling on an array of Jewish and non-Jewish figures to reveal how modern interpretations of Judaism may be traced to the core ideas of the Enlightenment, this book concludes that Voltaire paradoxically helped to foster the ambiguities and uncertainties of Judaism’s future.
Author | : Yehuda Bauer |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300093001 |
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Drawing on research from various historians, the author offers opinions on how to define and explain the Holocaust, comparison to other genocides, and the connection between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.
Author | : Mark Edele |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081434268X |
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This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.
Author | : Malachi Haim Hacohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108245498 |
Download Jacob & Esau Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures.