Making History Jewish
The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Studies in Honor of Professor Israel Bartal
Published on 27. August 2020
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-90-04-43196-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish. While practitioners of Jewish history often assume that "the Jews" are a well-defined ethno-national unit with a distinct, continuous history, this volume questions many of the assumptions that underlie and ultimately help construct Jewish history. Starting with a number of articles on the Jews of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Poland and Hungary, continuing with several studies of Jewish encounters with the advent of nationalism and antisemitism, and concluding with a set of essays on Jewish history and politics in twentieth-century eastern Europe, pre-state Palestine and North America, the volume discusses the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43196-6 (9789004431966)
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Pawel Maciejko is Associate Professor of History and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 (2011) and Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (2017).
Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012) and of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2014).
Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012) and of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2014).
Content
?Acknowledgements
?Notes on Contributors
?Introduction
?1 Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
?Pawel Maciejko and Scott Ury
?Part 1
East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity
?2 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland
?Gershon David Hundert
?3 Me'ora'ot tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century
?Jonatan Meir
?Part 2
Jews and Non-Jews
?4 "I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings": Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities
?Elliott Horowitz, z"l
?5 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend
?Michael K. Silber
?6 "The Great Sir, Unique Among His People": Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore
?Francois Guesnet
?7 Nation or Religion? The Polish-Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity
?Marcin Wodzinski
Part 3
Nationalism and Antisemitism
?8 Liberalism, Nationalism and the "Jewish Question" in Late Imperial Russia
?Semion Goldin
?9 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades
?David Engel
Part 4
Zionism and Its Others
?10 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire
?Derek J. Penslar
?11 Judaism and Islam in Pre-state Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz
?Hanan Harif
Part 5
History and Community
?12 Dubnow's Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz's The Golden Tradition
?Nancy Sinkoff
?13 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-determination
?Richard I. Cohen
?Selected Bibliography
?Index
?Notes on Contributors
?Introduction
?1 Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
?Pawel Maciejko and Scott Ury
?Part 1
East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity
?2 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland
?Gershon David Hundert
?3 Me'ora'ot tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century
?Jonatan Meir
?Part 2
Jews and Non-Jews
?4 "I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings": Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities
?Elliott Horowitz, z"l
?5 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend
?Michael K. Silber
?6 "The Great Sir, Unique Among His People": Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore
?Francois Guesnet
?7 Nation or Religion? The Polish-Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity
?Marcin Wodzinski
Part 3
Nationalism and Antisemitism
?8 Liberalism, Nationalism and the "Jewish Question" in Late Imperial Russia
?Semion Goldin
?9 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades
?David Engel
Part 4
Zionism and Its Others
?10 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire
?Derek J. Penslar
?11 Judaism and Islam in Pre-state Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz
?Hanan Harif
Part 5
History and Community
?12 Dubnow's Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz's The Golden Tradition
?Nancy Sinkoff
?13 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-determination
?Richard I. Cohen
?Selected Bibliography
?Index