Download or read book The Structure of Jewish History and Other Essays written by Heinrich Graetz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Identity in Modern Art History written by Catherine M. Soussloff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the nation-state; Nazi policies on art history; the criticism of Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, and Aby Warburg; the art of Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Morris Gottlieb; and Jewish patronage of German Expressionist art. Offering a new approach to the history of art in which the cultural identities of the makers and interpreters play a constitutive role, this collection begins an important and overdue dialogue that will have a significant impact on the fields of art history, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.
Download or read book The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
Download or read book Reconstructing Ashkenaz written by David Malkiel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rabbinic authority, and relations with apostates and with Christians. In the process, he also reexamines and radically revises the view that Ashkenazic Jewry was more pious than its Sephardic counterpart.
Download or read book Essays in Jewish Historiography written by Ada Rapoport-Albert and published by Studies in the History of Juda. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important collection of essays in the study of jewish history.
Download or read book Jewish History written by Simon Dubnow and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coming to Terms with America written by Jonathan D. Sarna and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long "straddled two civilizations," endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today. In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter--what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country's new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: "collisions" within the public square and over church-state separation. Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays--newly updated for this volume--cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry's finest historians.
Download or read book Leopold Zunz written by Ismar Schorsch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. Despite unending setbacks, he persevered for more than five decades to produce a body of enduring scholarship that would inspire young Jews streaming into German universities and alter forever the understanding of Judaism. By the time of his death in 1886, his vision and labor had given rise to a historical discourse and intellectual movement that devolved into vibrant sub-fields as it expanded to other geographic centers of Jewish life. Yet Zunz was a part-time scholar, at best, in search of employment that would leave him time to study. In addition to his pioneering scholarship, he was as deeply engaged in ending the political tutelage of German Christians as the civil disabilities of German Jews. And to his credit, these commitments did not come at the expense of his loyalty to the Jewish community, which he was ever ready to serve. Zunz once quipped that "those who have read my books are far from knowing me." To complement his books, Zunz left behind a treasure trove of notes, letters and papers, documents that the distinguished scholar of German Jewish culture, Ismar Schorsch, has zealously utilized to write this, the first full-fledged biography of a remarkable man.
Download or read book written by 张倩红 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书介绍了犹太史研究的各个方面，除了概述犹太历史的基本框架、介绍犹太史的原始文献外，还对研究发展史和主要成果进行了梳理，并展现了当前犹太史研究中的重点问题。
Download or read book Gender and Jewish History written by Marion A. Kaplan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""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.
Download or read book The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia written by Mattis Kantor and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
Download or read book History of Jewish Philosophy written by Daniel Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought. The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context are stressed, building up a comprehensive and historically sensitive view of Jewish philosophy and its place in the development of philosophy as a whole. Includes: · Detailed discussions of the most important Jewish philosophers and philosophical movements · Descriptions of the social and cultural contexts in which Jewish philosophical thought developed throughout the centuries · Contributions by 35 leading scholars in the field, from Britain, Canada, Israel and the US · Detailed and extensive bibliographies
Download or read book A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy written by Eliezer Schweid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of Eliezer Schweid’s life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical developments, with extensive primary source excerpts. Volume Two, "The Birth of the Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements," discusses the major Jewish thinkers of central and eastern Europe before 1881, in connection with the movements they fostered: German-Jewish Wissenschaft (Zunz), Reform (Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Geiger), Neo-Orthodoxy (S. D. Luzzatto, Steinheim, Samson Raphael Hirsch), Positive-Historical (Frankel, Graetz), and Neo-Haredi (Kalischer, Malbim, Hayyim Volozhiner, Salanter). In addition, extensive attention is given to the thinkers of the east-European Haskalah, both earlier (Levinsohn, Rubin, Schorr, Mieses, Abraham Krochmal) and later proto-Zionist thinkers (Zweifel, Smolenskin, Pines, Lilienblum).
Download or read book New Essays in American Jewish History written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and the tenth anniversary of Gary P. Zola as its Director, New Essays in American Jewish History includes twenty-two new articles representing the best in modern American and Jewish scholarship. More than a celebration, New Essays serves as a scholarly benchmark in the growing field of American Jewish studies." --Amazon.com.
Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry X Reshaping the Past written by Jonathan Frankel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant collection of essays examines the dialogue between Jewish history and historiography in terms of changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and historical consciousness of Jews in modern times. From essays dealing with the origins of Jewish historiography in the nineteenth century, to its contemporary perspectives and methodologies, this book provides a great overview and varied insights into the field.
Download or read book Jewish Literature and Other Essays written by Karpeles Gustav and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Jewish History written by S M Dubnow and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon M. Dubnow's "Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History" is a seminal work that explores the history of the Jewish people from a unique philosophical perspective. Dubnow, a historian and Jewish scholar, wrote this book to offer not just a chronological account of events but also to present a philosophical and interpretative understanding of Jewish history. Key features of the book include: Philosophical Approach: Dubnow introduces a distinctive philosophy of history, often referred to as "Autonomism." This perspective emphasizes the uniqueness of the Jewish historical experience, asserting that Jewish history follows its own distinct trajectory and principles. Chronological Overview: While offering a philosophical lens, Dubnow also provides a chronological overview of Jewish history, spanning from ancient times to the contemporary period (the book was first published in 1903, so the contemporary period at that time covered the early 20th century). Key Themes: The book explores essential themes in Jewish history, including the dispersion of the Jewish people, their relationship with different cultures and nations, and the evolution of Jewish communal structures. Cultural and Religious Developments: Dubnow delves into the cultural and religious developments within the Jewish community, examining how these aspects shaped the identity and resilience of the Jewish people over time. Diaspora Experience: The author emphasizes the unique aspect of the Jewish diaspora experience, highlighting the cultural and social dynamics that enabled the Jewish community to maintain a distinct identity despite residing in various regions. Impact on Jewish Thought: "Jewish History" has had a profound impact on the study of Jewish history and thought. Dubnow's Autonomism became influential, and his work paved the way for further exploration of the philosophy of Jewish history. Legacy: Dubnow's book remains an important and influential work in Jewish historiography. While some aspects of his philosophy have been debated, his contribution to the understanding of Jewish history has left a lasting legacy. "Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History" is not only a historical survey but also a philosophical exploration that seeks to understand the distinctive nature of Jewish historical development. It continues to be a thought-provoking and influential work in the field of Jewish studies.
