Zakhor

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Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9780295975191
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis Zakhor by : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Download or read book Zakhor written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by UBS Publishers' Distributors. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jewish History and Jewish Memory

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518719
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish History and Jewish Memory by : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Download or read book Jewish History and Jewish Memory written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

Zakhor

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803835
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Zakhor by : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Download or read book Zakhor written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review

The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316666670
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory by : Joshua Ezra Burns

Download or read book The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory written by Joshua Ezra Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of Judaism's earliest surviving memories of Christianity speak to the perspectives of rabbinic observers who were conditioned by the unique circumstances of their encounters with Christianity to recognize its adherents as fellow Jews. Only upon the decline of the Church's Jewish demographic were their successors compelled to see Christianity as something other than a variation of Jewish cultural expression. The evolution of thought in the classical Jewish literary record thus offers a dynamic account of Christianity's separation from Judaism counterbalancing the abrupt schism attested in contemporary Christian texts.

Jewish Memory And the Cosmopolitan Order

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Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745647952
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Memory And the Cosmopolitan Order by : Natan Sznaider

Download or read book Jewish Memory And the Cosmopolitan Order written by Natan Sznaider and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were both a nation and cosmopolitan, they lived in a constant tension between particularism and universalism. And it is precisely this tension, which Sznaider seeks to capture in his innovative conception of ‘rooted cosmopolitanism', that is increasingly the destiny of all peoples today. The book pays special attention to Jewish intellectuals who played an important role in advancing universal ideas out of their particular identities. The central figure in this respect is Hannah Arendt and her concern to build a better world out of the ashes of the Jewish catastrophe. The book demonstrates how particular Jewish affairs are connected to current concerns about cosmopolitan politics like human rights, genocide, international law and politics. Jewish identity and universalist human rights were born together, developed together and are still fundamentally connected. This book will appeal both to readers interested in Jewish history and memory and to anyone concerned with current debates about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the modern world.

How Jewish is Jewish History?

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821128
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis How Jewish is Jewish History? by : Moshe Rosman

Download or read book How Jewish is Jewish History? written by Moshe Rosman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Faith of Fallen Jews

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684870
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis The Faith of Fallen Jews by : David N. Myers

Download or read book The Faith of Fallen Jews written by David N. Myers and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253050146
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Memory Work of Jewish Spain by : Daniela Flesler

Download or read book The Memory Work of Jewish Spain written by Daniela Flesler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.

Imagining Russian Jewry

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802316
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining Russian Jewry by : Steven J. Zipperstein

Download or read book Imagining Russian Jewry written by Steven J. Zipperstein and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804790590
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Pasts, German Fictions by : Jonathan Skolnik

Download or read book Jewish Pasts, German Fictions written by Jonathan Skolnik and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory.

Lower East Side Memories

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691095455
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (954 download)

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Book Synopsis Lower East Side Memories by : Hasia R. Diner

Download or read book Lower East Side Memories written by Hasia R. Diner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.

German City, Jewish Memory

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659475
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Book Synopsis German City, Jewish Memory by : Nils Roemer

Download or read book German City, Jewish Memory written by Nils Roemer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city

Shuva

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682320
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Shuva by : Yehuda Kurtzer

Download or read book Shuva written by Yehuda Kurtzer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a roadmap for revitalizing the connection between the Jewish people and the Jewish past

Sites of Jewish Memory

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317751604
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Sites of Jewish Memory by : Glenda Abramson

Download or read book Sites of Jewish Memory written by Glenda Abramson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of 16 essays, first published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, that explore Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Iraq. The discussions are located primarily in the 20th century but essays also examine the Jewish community in 16th-century Istanbul, and in early modern Morocco. Topics include traumatic departures of communities from countries of centuries-old Jewish residence, and relocations; pilgrimages to holy sites by Mizrahi Jews in Israel; resonances of Shabbetai Zevi in Turkey and Morocco; "otherness" and the nature of homeland; the Sephardi culinary heritage as realised in the cookbooks of Claudia Roden; sites of memory, such as Kuzguncuk in Turkey; and a controversial view of the exclusions and erasures that Arabized Jews have undergone. In this unique collection a major, but not exclusive, theme is that of the instability of memory, and the attempt to understand the interactions between memory and history as Jews recount their experiences of living in, and often leaving, their past homelands. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Memories of Eden

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810164086
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Memories of Eden by : Violette Shamash

Download or read book Memories of Eden written by Violette Shamash and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad’s Jewish population. Shamash’s world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.

Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families

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Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0822574497
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families by : Marsha Rehms Staff

Download or read book Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families written by Marsha Rehms Staff and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINGLE PAPERBACK, PART OF THE JEWISH IDENTITY SET

Jews, Germans, Memory

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472105847
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews, Germans, Memory by : Y. Michal Bodemann

Download or read book Jews, Germans, Memory written by Y. Michal Bodemann and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources