Author: Salo Wittmayer BaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish historians
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
History and Jewish Historians
Author: Salo Wittmayer BaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish historians
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
Author: Mark L. SmithPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814346138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.
Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust
Author: David EngelPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Nazi Holocaust is often said to dominate the study of modern Jewish history. Engel demonstrates that, to the contrary, historians of the Jews have often insisted that the Holocaust be sequestered from their field, assigning it instead to historians of Europe, Germany, or the Third Reich. He shows that reasons for this counterintuitive situation lie in the evolution of the Jewish historical profession since the 1920s. This one-of-a-kind study takes readers on a tour of twentieth-century scholars of the history of European Jewry, and the social and political contexts in which they worked, in order to understand why many have declined to view their subject from the vantage point of Jews' encounter with the Third Reich. Engel argues vehemently against this separation and describes ways in which a few exceptional scholars have used the Holocaust to illuminate key problems in the Jewish past.
History Of The Jewish People Vol 1
Author: Charles Foster KentPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135779996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered, oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.
History and Jewish Historians
Author: Salo Wittmayer BaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish historians
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Stakes of History
Author: David N. MyersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231407
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers’s belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.
How Jewish is Jewish History?
Author: Moshe RosmanPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the light of post-modernist thinking.
Conscious History
Author: Natalia AleksiunPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789624304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history devoted themselves to creating a sense of Polish Jewish belonging while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. The political climate made it hard for these men and women to pursue an academic career; instead they had to continue their efforts to create and disseminate Polish Jewish history by teaching outside the university and publishing in scholarly and popular journals. By introducing the Jewish public to a pantheon of historical heroes to celebrate and anniversaries to commemorate, they sought to forge a community aware of its past, its cultural heritage, and its achievements---though no less important were their efforts to counter the increased hostility towards Jews in the public discourse of the day. In highlighting the role of public intellectuals and the social role of scholars and historical scholarship, this study adds a new dimension to the understanding of the Polish Jewish world in the interwar period.
The Faith of Fallen Jews
Author: David N. MyersPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611684137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud's Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) earned recognition as perhaps the greatest Jewish historian of his day, whose scholarship blended vast erudition, unfettered creativity, and lyrical beauty. This volume charts his intellectual trajectory by bringing together a mix of classic and lesser-known essays from the whole of his career. The essays in this collection, representative of the range of his writing, acquaint the reader with his research on early modern Spanish Jewry and the experience of crypto-Jews, varied reflections on Jewish history and memory, and Yerushalmi-s enduring interest in the political history of the Jews. Also included are a number of little-known autobiographical recollections, as well as his only published work of fiction.
Zakhor
Author: Yosef Hayim YerushalmiPublisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN: 9780295975191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Discusses the nature of Jewish historical memory which traditionally concentrated on the religious meaning of history rather than on the events themselves. Medieval Jewish historians focused either on the ancient past or on recent persecutions, tending to identify them with biblical patterns of oppression. For example, the Hebrew chronicles of the Crusader massacres show awareness of a deterioration in Christian-Jewish relations, using the "binding of Isaac" as a pattern for Jewish martyrdom. Although the chronicles were forgotten, the memory of the persecutions was preserved in halakhic and liturgical works. The expulsion from Spain in 1492 stimulated a minor resurgence in Jewish historiography. However, the kabbalistic myth proved more influential than history. Modern Jewish historiography is based on the secular concept of historical science and, especially since the Holocaust, cannot take the place of group memory.--Publisher description.