UID:
almafu_9960963234702883
Format:
1 online resource (271 pages)
ISBN:
0-300-24062-7
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9780300240627
Series Statement:
Yale scholarship online
Content:
A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees†‹ For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews by majority populations, or as the result of Jews' acceptance of their minority status perpetuating the maltreatment and forced migration. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various accounts, and argues that Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a Jewish sense that there were alternatives available for making a better life.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Prologue --
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One. Traditional Jewish and Christian Perspectives --
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Two. Modern Perspectives --
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Three. Innovative Recent Perspectives --
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Four. Governmental Expulsions --
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Five. Flight from Governmental Repression or Popular violence --
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Six. Late Antiquity --
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Seven. The Islamic world --
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Eight. Medieval Northern Europe --
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Nine. Movement Eastward --
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Ten. Return westward --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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History.
DOI:
10.12987/9780300240627
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
URL:
Yale scholarship online
