Modern Jewish History

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804150507

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The Course of Modern Jewish History by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

When this encyclopedic history of the Jews was first published in 1958, it was hailed as one of the great works of its kind, a study that not only chronicled an assailed and enduring people, but assessed its astonishing impact on the modern world. Now this scholarly and comprehensive book has been massively revised and updated by its author, a professor of modern history at the George Washington University and one of the most respected authorities on the lives and times of the Jewish people. The new edition casts additional light on the milestones of the Jewish saga from the eighteenth century to the close of the twentieth: the Jews' emergence from the ghetto and into the heart of Western society, the debate between the voices of tradition, assimilation, and Zionism; virtual destruction during the Holocaust; and troubled rebirth in Israel. Here, too, are evocative portraits of today's disapora, from the Jews of America to the embattled communities of the former Soviet Union and the Third World.

Author : Howard Morley Sachar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000044431

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The Course of Modern Jewish History by Howard Morley Sachar Pdf

Author : Robert Chazan,Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019113938

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Modern Jewish History by Robert Chazan,Marc Lee Raphael Pdf

Author : Paula E. Hyman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806822

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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History by Paula E. Hyman Pdf

Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted “the Jews” as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their writings--memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, and texts of speeches--and finds that Jewish women’s patterns of assimilation differed from men’s and that an examination of those differences exposes the tensions inherent in the project of Jewish assimilation. Patterns of assimilation varied not only between men and women but also according to geographical locale and social class. Germany, France, England, and the United States offered some degree of civic equality to their Jewish populations, and by the last third of the nineteenth century, their relatively small Jewish communities were generally defined by their middle-class characteristics. In contrast, the eastern European nations contained relatively large and overwhelmingly non-middle-class Jewish population. Hyman considers how these differences between East and West influenced gender norms, which in turn shaped Jewish women’s responses to the changing conditions of the modern world, and how they merged in the large communities of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States. The book concludes with an exploration of the sexual politics of Jewish identity. Hyman argues that the frustration of Jewish men at their “feminization” in societies in which they had achieved political equality and economic success was manifested in their criticism of, and distancing from, Jewish women. The book integrates a wide range of primary and secondary sources to incorporate Jewish women’s history into one of the salient themes in modern Jewish history, that of assimilation. The book is addressed to a wide audience: those with an interest in modern Jewish history, in women’s history, and in ethnic studies and all who are concerned with the experience and identity of Jews in the modern world.

Author : Susannah Heschel,Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300106777

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Writing a Modern Jewish History by Susannah Heschel,Arthur Hertzberg Pdf

In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), a preeminent scholar who revolutionized the study of Jewish history during his lengthy tenure at Columbia University. Baron's important ideas are reflected throughout these texts, which concern strategies for the continuous identity of a dispersed people. Featured essays discuss the meaning and significance of colonial portraits of American Jews; the history of an extraordinary group of Jews in the remote Amazon; the charitable fairs organized by Jewish women to raise money for various causes in nineteenth-century America; the place of Jews in postmodern American culture; the "Jewish unconscious" of the art critic Meyer Schapiro; and Salo Baron's influence as a historian and teacher. A group of poems by Robert Pinsky accompanies the essays. Together these writings form a dynamic interplay of ideas that encourages readers to think deeply about Jewish history and identity.

Author : Evyatar Friesel
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002858166

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Atlas of Modern Jewish History by Evyatar Friesel Pdf

A unique reference source, the Atlas of Modern Jewish History covers Jewish history, geographic distribution, politics, and demography from the 17th century to the 1980s. The contributors, all distinguished specialists in Jewish history, focus particularly on Jewish populations in urban areas, making available for the first time maps and other data on Jewish communities in Muslim countries, India, China, Lithuania, and 18th-century Poland. In addition, the Atlas contains a wealth of other maps, tables, graphics, text, and special thematic maps that illustrate the development of anti-semitism, Jewish langauge and religious movements, Zionism, and the holocaust. Comprehensive, authoritative, and completely up-to-date, the Atlas of Modern Jewish History is a one-of-a-kind reference book and will prove invaluable to a wide range of specialists, students, and general readers.

Author : Phyllis Cohen Albert,Frances Malino
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0838630952

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Essays in Modern Jewish History by Phyllis Cohen Albert,Frances Malino Pdf

A diverse collection of essays studying Jewish communities before, during, and after their emergence into a modern, emancipated status. A fitting tribute to an outstanding sociologist and scholar.

Author : Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335549

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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History by Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup Pdf

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.

Author : David Bianco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0965798100

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Modern Jewish History for Everyone by David Bianco Pdf

Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300231403

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The Stakes of History by David N. Myers Pdf

A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers’s belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.

Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198024453

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On Modern Jewish Politics by Ezra Mendelsohn Pdf

This book is a concise guide to and analysis of the complexities of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. "Jewish politics" refers to the different and opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various Jewish political parties and organizations and their efforts to implement their programs and thereby solve the "Jewish question." Mendelsohn begins by attempting a typology of these Jewish political parties and organizations, dividing them into a number of schools or "camps." He then suggests a "geography" of Jewish politics by locating the core areas of the various camps. There follows an analysis of the competition among the various Jewish political camps for hegemony in the Jewish world--an analysis that pays particular attention to the situation in the United States and Poland, the two largest diasporas, in the 1920s and 1930s. The final chapters ask the following questions: what were the sources of appeal of the various Jewish political camps (such as the Jewish left and Jewish nationalism), to what extent did the various factions succeed in their efforts to implement their plans for the Jewish future, and how were Jewish politics similar to, or different from, the politics of other minority groups in Europe and America? Mendelsohn concludes with a discussion of the great changes that have occurred in the world of Jewish politics since World War II.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan,Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222633

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Gender and Jewish History by Marion A. Kaplan,Deborah Dash Moore Pdf

""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424365

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A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in “higher” literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment. As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world history—among them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a master’s hand in describing and deciphering the Jews’ unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movements—fascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust. A distillation of the author’s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike.

Author : Mitchell Bryan Hart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804738246

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Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity by Mitchell Bryan Hart Pdf

This book traces the emergence and development of an organized, institutionalized Jewish social science, and explores the increasing importance of statistics and other modes of analysis for Jewish elites throughout Europe and the United States. The Zionist movement provided the initial impetus as it looked to the social sciences to provide the knowledge of contemporary Jewish life deemed necessary for nationalist revival. The social sciences offered empirical evidence of the ambiguous condition of the Jewish diaspora, and also charted emancipation and assimilation, viewed as dissolutions of and threats to Jewish identity. Liberal, assimilationist scholars also utilized social science data to demonstrate the continuing viability of Jewish life in the diaspora. Jewish social science grew out of a sustained effort to understand and explain the effects of modernization on Jewry. Above all, Jewish scholars sought to give the enormous transformations undergone by Jewry in the nineteenth century a larger meaning and significance

Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970699

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The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics by Zvi Y. Gitelman Pdf

"While contributors to The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics debate the ultimate success and failure of the various parties and the appropriateness of their tactics, inevitably most examine such issues through the prism of the Holocaust, which effectively terminated East European Jewish politics. These essays also raise the issue of whether ethnic minorities are best served by highly ideological or highly pragmatic political movements in trying to defend their interests in nondemocratic, multiethnic states."--BOOK JACKET.