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Author : Ellis Rivkin
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Ellis Rivkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007491694
Author : Ellis Rivkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0684132362
Author : E. Rivkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:523624761
Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344071
Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of 1789 came the collapse of the social, political, and philosophical foundations of exclusiveness, forcing French society and the Jews to come to terms with the meaning of emancipation. Over time, the enormous challenge that emancipation posed for traditional Jewish beliefs became evident. In the 1830s, a more comprehensive ideology of regeneration emerged through the efforts of younger Jewish scholars and intellectuals. A response to the social and religious implications of emancipation, it was characterized by the demand for the elimination of rituals that violated the French conceptions of civilization and social integration; a drive for greater administrative centralization; and the quest for inter-communal and ethnic unity. In its various elements, regeneration formed a distinct ideology of emancipation that was designed to mediate Jewish interaction with French society and culture. Jay Berkovitz reveals the complexities inherent in the processes of emancipation and modernization, focusing on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity. All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.
Author : Kenneth G. Holum,Hayim Lapin
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1934309311
"Presents the archaeology, art, and history of the Middle East from 400-800 C.E. including latest archaeology of Caesarea, the Persian invasion of Palestine, and the Early Islamic period. Color photographs throughout. Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, vol. 20"--Publisher's website.
Author : Maja Gildin Zuckerman,Jakob Egholm Feldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Steven Bayme
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881255548
Author : Adam Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107404991
Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari is a defense of Judaism that has enjoyed an almost continuous transmission since its composition in the twelfth century. By surveying the activities of readers, commentators, copyists, and printers for more than 700 years, Adam Shear examines the ways that the Kuzari became a classic of Jewish thought. Today, the Kuzari is usually understood as the major statement of an anti-rationalist and ethnocentric approach to Judaism and is often contrasted with the rationalism and universalism of Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed. But this conception must be seen as a modern construction, and the reception history of the Kuzari demonstrates that many earlier readers of the work understood it as offering a way toward reconciling reason and faith and of negotiating between particularism and universalism.
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Zachary Braiterman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804753210
The Shape of Revelation highlights the image of form-creation, sheer presence, lyric pathos, rhythmic repetition, open spatial dynamism, and erotic pulse unique in the work of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and German Expressionism in order to explore the overlap between revelation and aesthetic shape from the perspective of Judaism.
Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827607482
A history in words and photographs of the growth of the Jewish community in the United States and its contributions to American culture, politics, and economics in the twentieth century.
Author : Paula E. Hyman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806822
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 : Judith R. Baskin,Kenneth Seeskin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521869607
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the Jewish experience, from its ancient origins to its impact on contemporary popular culture.
Author : Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691144870
Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.
