Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Volume X: Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians
1st Edition
Published on 29. December 1994
456 pages
978-0-19-535760-8 (ISBN)
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Published annually by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this acclaimed series includes symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world. 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 19th century, to its contemporary perspectives and methodologies, this book provides a great overview and varied insights into the field.
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: X: Reshaping the Past
Jewish History and the Historians
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Symposium: Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians
- Modern Jewish Ideologies and the Historiography of Jewish Politics
- Nineteenth-Century Jewish Historiography: The Second Track
- Postemancipation Historiography and the Jewish Historical Societies of America and England
- Was There a "Jerusalem School"? An Inquiry into the First Generation of Historical Researchers at The Hebrew University
- The Dynamics of Social History
- The End of Myth: Historians and the Yishuv (1918--1948)
- Small Forays, Grand Theories and Deep Origins: Current Trends in the Historiography of the Holocaust
- The Life of the Dead: Sabras and Immigrants
- True Knowledge and Wisdom": On Orthodox Historiography
- Essays
- The Land of Israel: Myth and Phenomenon
- Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kasztner Case
- The Rothschilds and the Russian Loans- High Finance and Jewish Solidarity
- Review Essays
- History Through the "Eye" of the Camera: The Holocaust and Photography
- Sander Gilman on Hatred and Self-Hatred
- More Than Just Another Country: Writing the History of American Jews
- In Search of the Exotic: Orthodoxy and Its Ethnographers
- Book Reviews
- Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide
- Samuel Abrahamsen, Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective
- Yitzhak, Arad The Pictorial History of the Holocaust
- Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945
- Sander L. Gilman, Inscribing the Other
- Sander L. Gilman, The Jew's Body
- Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
- Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz (eds.), Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis
- Joe J. Heydecker, Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record
- Sybil Milton and Ira Nowinski, In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Monuments
- Dalia Ofer, Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944
- Alexandre Safran, El mul penei hase'arah: yahadut romaniyah bitkufat hashoah, zikhronot (Resisting the Storm: Romanian Jewry During the Holocaust, Memoirs)
- Leon Volovici, Nationalist Ideology and Antisemitism: The Case of Romanian Intellectuals in the 1930s
- Harold Werner, Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II
- History and Social Sciences
- Shlomo Atamuk, Yidn in lite (Jews in Lithuania)
- Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski and Antony Polonsky (eds.), The Jews in Warsaw: A History
- Judith R. Baskin (ed.), Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
- Arnold Dashefsky, Jan DeAmicis, Bernard Lazerwitz and Ephraim Tabory, Americans Abroad: A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States
- Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
- Hasia R. Diner, A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880
- Yehuda Don and Victor Karady (eds.), A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry
- Eli Faber, A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820
- Henry L. Feingold, A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945
- Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds.), Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe
- Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark, Sefardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz-Israel: The Amzalak Family 1816-1918
- Samuel C. Heilman, Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
- Paula E. Hyman, The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
- Jack Jacobs, On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx
- Jenna Weissman Joselit, .New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years
- Marion A. Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
- Nissim Kazzaz, Hayehudim be'iraq bameah ha'esrim (The Jews of Iraq in the Twentieth Century)
- Thomas A. Kolsky, Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948
- Mark Levene, War, Jews and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-1919
- Peter Levine, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience
- Antony Polonsky (ed.), "My Brother's Keeper?" Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust
- Peter Pulzer, Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933
- Yaacov Ro'i, The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration,1948-1967
- Yaacov Ro'i and Avi Becker (eds.), Jewish Culture and Identity in the Soviet Union
- Susan Starr Sered, Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem
- Edward S. Shapiro, A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since 1945
- Gerald Sorin, A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920
- Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times
- Selwyn Ilan Troen and Benjamin Pinkus (eds.), Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period
- Selig Volovitch, Hahaglayah haadumah: zikhronot haglayat yehudei litah lesibir bishnat 1941 (The "Red Exile": Memoirs of the Exile of Lithuanian Jews to Siberia in 1941)
- Yifaat Weiss, Schicksalsgemeinschaft im wandel: Jiidische Erziehung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland 1933-1938
- Jack Wertheimer, A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America
- Language, Literature and the Arts
- Robert Alter, Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin and Scholem
- Leslie Fiedler, Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity
- Lynn M. Gunzberg, Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination
- Louis Harap, Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth- Century American Literature, 1900-1940s
- Louis Harap, In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature I950s-1980s
- Louis Harap, Dramatic Encounters: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Drama, Poetry, and Humor and the Black-Jewish Literary Relationship
- William Mac Adams, Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend
- Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, Russian-Jewish Literature and Identity: Jabotinsky, Babel, Grossman, Galich, Roziner, Markish
- Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Mi,ezywojenna literatura polsko-zydowska (Interwar Polish-Jewish Literature)
- Stephen J. Whitfield, American Space, Jewish Time
- Religion, Thought and Education
- Yaakov Ariel, On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945
- Simon Doubnov, Lettres sur le judaisme ancien et nouveau, (trans. and ed. Renée Poznanski)
- Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Mel Scult and Robert M. Seltzer (eds.), The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
- L. E. Goodman, On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy
- David Weiss Halivni, Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis
- Jay M. Harris, Nachman Krochmal: Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age
- Arthur Hertzberg, Jewish Polemics
- Susanne Klingenstein, Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation
- Zionism, Israel and the Middle East
- Mordechai Bar-On, Sha'arei 'aza: mediniyut habitahon vehahuz shel medinat yisrael, 1955-1957 (The Gates of Gaza: Israeli Defense and Foreign Policy, 1955-1957)
- Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Steven Sharot, Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
- Michael J. Cohen, Truman and Israel
- Natan Efrati, Mimashber letikvah: hayishuv hayehudi beerez yisrael bamilhemet ha'olam harishonah (From Crisis to Hope: The Jewish Community in Palestine [the Yishuv] during the First World War)
- Yigal Elam, Hasokhnut hayehudit: shanim rishonot 1919-1931 (The Jewish Agency: Formative Years 1919-1931)
- Steven Z. Freiberger, Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957
- Allon Gal, David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State
- Menachem Hofnung, Yisrael: bitahon hamedinah mul shilton hahok (Israel: Security Needs versus the Rule of Law)
- Amitzur Ilan, Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948: A Study in Contemporary Humanitarian Knight-Errantry
- Efraim Inbar, War and Peace in Israeli Politics: Labor Party Positions on National Security
- A.F.K. Organski, The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in U.S. Assistance to Israel
- Derek J. Penslar, Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918
- Uziel Otto Schmelz, Sergio DellaPergola and Uri Avner, Ethnic- Differences Among Israeli Jews: A New Look
- Eli Shaltiel, Pinhas Rutenberg: 'aliyato unefilato shel "ish hazak" beerez yisrael, 1879-1942 (Pinhas Rutenberg, 1879-1942: Life and Times)
- Laurence J. Silberstein (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State
- Ehud Sprinzak, The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right
- Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations
- Contents for Volume XI
- Note on Editorial Policy
