Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
Author: Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1611683629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum
Author: Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1611683629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum
Author: Joshua Shanes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1139560646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The triumph of Zionism has clouded recollection of competing forms of Jewish nationalism vying for power a century ago. This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. Like its non-Jewish counterparts, Jewish nationalism was first and foremost a movement to nationalize Jews, to construct a modern Jewish nation while simultaneously masking its very modernity. Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia traces this process in what was the second largest Jewish community in Europe, Galicia. The history of this vital but very much understudied community of Jews fills a critical lacuna in existing scholarship while revisiting the broader question of how Jewish nationalism - or indeed any modern nationalism - was born. Based on a wide variety of sources, many newly uncovered, this study challenges the still-dominant Zionist narrative by demonstrating that Jewish nationalism was a part of the rising nationalist movements in Europe.
Author: Robert Seltzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9004260676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in “Letter on Old and New Judaism” that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow’s personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.
Author: Joshua M. Karlip
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0674074947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential strains of Jewish thought—Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism—and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and the Holocaust.
Author: Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781584657613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sofii͡a Dubnova-Ėrlikh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1991-01-22
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780253318367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"... a welcome and unusual glimpse of the private side of one of East European Jewry's most influential public figures." --American Historical Review "... an absorbing introduction to one of the truly original thinkers in modern Jewish history." --Heritage Southwest Jewish Press "For a complete picture of the Polish/Russian world of the twentieth century, this book should be required reading." --AJL Newsletter This is a memoir and biography by an extraordinary woman about her father, a pioneer in the field of Jewish history as well as a leading political activist among East European Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book chronicles Dubnov's personal, professional, and ideological development during a period of intense change for the Jews of the Russian Empire, from the Haskalah to the first years of World War II.
Author: David Goodblatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-09-04
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 1139460579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contrary to the widespread view that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, Goodblatt argues that it can be found in the ancient world. He argues that concepts of nationalism compatible with contemporary social scientific theories can be documented in the ancient sources from the Mediterranean Rim by the middle of the last millennium BCE. In particular, the collective identity asserted by the Jews in antiquity fits contemporary definitions of nationalism. After the theoretical discussion in the opening chapter, the author examines several factors constitutive of ancient Jewish nationalism. He shows how this identity was socially constructed by such means as the mass dissemination of biblical literature, retention of the Hebrew language, and through the priestly caste. The author also discusses each of the names used to express Jewish national identity: Israel, Judah and Zion.