Format:
1 online resource (267 pages)
ISBN:
9781400836611
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1282692275
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9780691139289
Content:
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He deftly traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany; to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow, the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians, and the short-lived efforts of Soviet-Jewish historians; to the work of British and American scholars such as Cecil Roth and Salo Baron; and to Zionist and post-Zionist interpretations of Jewish history. He also unravels the distortions of Jewish history writing, including antisemitic Nazi research into the "Jewish question," the Soviet portrayal of Jewish history as class struggle, and Orthodox Jewish interpretations of history as divinely inspired. History proved to be a uniquely powerful weapon for modern Jewish scholars during a period when they had no nation or army to fight for their ideological and political objectives, whether the goal was Jewish emancipation, diasporic autonomy, or the creation of a Jewish state. As Brenner demonstrates in this illuminating and incisive book, these historians often found legitimacy for these struggles in the Jewish past.
Content:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Objectivity and Partiality -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Nation and Religion -- Scholarship and Ideology -- Heroes and Eras -- Chapter 1 -- Christian Beginnings -- Traditional Reverberations -- In the Service of Religious Reform -- In the Battle for Political Emancipation -- Jewish Religious History as Counterhistory -- One Religion among Numerous Nations -- Chapter 2 -- The Battle against Reform and Assimilation -- Only a History of Suffering and Learning? -- The Debate with Christianity and Germanness -- Rationalism and Mysticism -- Translations and New Interpretations -- External Opinions on Jewish History -- Chapter 3 -- Dubnow: Diaspora Nationalism as a Historical Concept -- Polish Jewish Historiography between the Wars -- Under the Soviet Star: Jewish History as Class History -- Chapter 4 -- Baron in New York: Against the Lachrymose Version of Jewish History -- Roth in Oxford: More Than a History of Victims -- From the Salon to the Academy: The Beginnings of Jewish Women's History -- The Return of Tears: Jewish History versus the History of the "Jewish Question" -- A Signal in Dark Times: The "Jewish Contribution" to Civilization -- Chapter 5 -- The Revolt against the Father: The Break with Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Patricide: Scholem's Metaphorics of Death -- New Fathers: The "Jerusalem School" under Baer and Dinur -- New Sons: Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson, Shmuel Ettinger, and Jacob Katz -- The Revolt of the Grandchildren: The New Historians -- Chapter 6 -- From One Jewish Community to Many Jewish Cultures -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Viewpoints on Jewish History; Chapter 1 Jewish History as History of Religion: Wissenschaft des Judentums in the Service of Reform and Emancipation; Chapter 2 Between Religion and Nation: Graetz and His Construction of Jewish History; Chapter 3 The Nationalization of Jewish History: The View from the East; Chapter 4 Jewish History without Tears?: New Perspectives in the West; Chapter 5 The Return of the Nation to Its Land: Zionist Narrative Perspectives
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Chapter 6 Postmodern Influences: A New SubjectivityEpilogue; Notes; References; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691139289
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691139289
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=557131
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