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Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909821125
Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the light of post-modernist thinking.
Author : Charles Foster Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135779993
First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered, oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.
Author : Israel Shahak
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0745308198
'Shahak subjects the whole history of Orthodoxy ... to a hilarious and scrupulous critique.' --Christopher Hitchens, The Nation
Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199912858
How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely-and decidedly this-worldly--factors to explain the survival of the Jews: antisemitism and assimilation. Usually regarded as grave dangers, these two factors have continually interacted with one other to enable the persistence of the Jews. At every turn in their history, not just in the modern age, Jews have adapted to new environments, cultures, languages, and social norms. These bountiful encounters with host societies have exercised the cultural muscle of the Jews, preventing the atrophy that would have occurred if they had not interacted so extensively with the non-Jewish world. It is through these encounters--indeed, through a process of assimilation--that Jews came to develop distinct local customs, speak many different languages, and cultivate diverse musical, culinary, and intellectual traditions. Left unchecked, the Jews' well-honed ability to absorb from surrounding cultures might have led to their disappearance. And yet, the route toward full and unbridled assimilation was checked by the nearly constant presence of hatred toward the Jew. Anti-Jewish expression and actions have regularly accompanied Jews throughout history. Part of the ironic success of antisemitism is its malleability, its talent in assuming new forms and portraying the Jew in diverse and often contradictory images--for example, at once the arch-capitalist and revolutionary Communist. Antisemitism not only served to blunt further assimilation, but, in a paradoxical twist, affirmed the Jew's sense of difference from the host society. And thus together assimilation and antisemitism (at least up to a certain limit) contribute to the survival of the Jews as a highly adaptable and yet distinct group.
Author : Gideon Reuveni,Sarah Wobick-Segev
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459864
Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, arguing that a broader, cultural approach is needed to understand the central importance of the economy. The very dynamics of economy and its ability to function depend on the ability of individuals to interact, and on the shared values and norms that are fostered within ethnic communities. Thus this volume sheds new light on the interrelationship between religion, ethnicity, culture, and the economy, revealing the potential of an “economic turn” in the study of history.
Author : Elie Barnavi,Miriam Eliav-Feldon
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0805241272
The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People is both an authoritative reference work and a sumptuous gift volume.
Author : Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451418590
Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.
Author : Lawrence Fine
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271090108
The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it truly is. Covering the vast expanse of Jewish tradition, from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century, this collection of essays traces the history of the beliefs, rituals, and social practices surrounding friendship in Jewish life. Employing diverse methodological approaches, this volume explores the particulars of the many varied forms that friendship has taken in the different regions where Jews have lived, including the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, Europe, and the United Sates. The four sections—friendship between men, friendship between women, challenges to friendship, and friendships that cross boundaries, especially between Jews and Christians, or men and women—represent and exemplify universal themes and questions about human interrelationships. This pathbreaking and timely study will inspire further research and provide the groundwork for future explorations of the topic. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Martha Ackelsberg, Michela Andreatta, Joseph Davis, Glenn Dynner, Eitan P. Fishbane, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Jütte, Eyal Levinson, Saul M. Olyan, George Savran, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881255602
The early history of the Jewish people is told through a collection of short essays, beginning with the first Hebrews, Abraham and Sarah, in about 1900 B.C.E., through 1492 when the Jews were expelled from Spain. Includes charts, photographs, and maps, with timelines and a chronology.
Author : Naomi Pasachoff,Robert J. Littman
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461629115
How does this Jewish history book differ from all others? Instead of burdening the reader with endless details about every single aspect of Jewish history, Pasachoff and Littman provide essential information, easily digested by readers of all ages, that chronicles only the major events and people of the past. The history of the Jews covers a period of over 3,500 years, with an overwhelming number of countries and lands. It is a microcosm of the history of the world. Consequently, even a one-volume work can be difficult to read from cover to cover to gain the sweep of Jewish history. This book speaks to the reader who is interested in individual topics or periods and wants a quick-reference guide to the people and places that truly shaped Jewish history. At the same time, if read from beginning to end, these 'nutshells' will provide a chronological history of the Jews.
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300190397
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Author : Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691191652
The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be. He sheds new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers—and the religious and political agendas that have made finding answers so elusive. Introducing many approaches and theories, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and divisive topic.
Author : Ellis Rivkin
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0874411742
This scholarly yet engaging book presents a dynamic interpretation of Jewish history'Äîfrom biblical to modern times'Äîas a set of interconnected and evolving events and relationships that spring directly from Judaism's core beliefs.
Author : Maja Gildin Zuckerman,Jakob Egholm Feldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000477955
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.
Author : Joan Comay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000950847
From Karl Marx to the Marx brothers, the Routledge Who's Who in Jewish History presents a complete reference guide to over a thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture. Covering twenty centuries of Jewish history it provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analysis of their role and significance both in Jewish life and the wider culture * a comprehensive chronological table displaying the history of the Jewish race * a useful glossary giving precise definitions of Jewish words.
