History, memory, and jewish identity.

This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Colección:North American Jewish studies
Temas:
Jewish diaspora.
Jews > History.
Collective memory.
Jews > Identity.
Diaspora juive.
Juifs > Histoire.
Mémoire collective.
Juifs > Identité.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Collective memory
Jewish diaspora
Jews
Jews > Identity
Juden
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Identität
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • ANCIENT PERIOD
  • The Causes of the Alexandrian Pogrom and the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in 38 CE / Sanders, Lionel Jehuda
  • Sectarianism in the Mishnah: Memory, Modeling Society, and Rabbinic Identity / Cohn, Naftali S.
  • Power and the (Re)Creation of Collective-Cultural Memory in Early Judaism: The Case of the Mishnah / Lightstone, Jack N.
  • MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PERIODS
  • Maimonides vs. Nahmanides on Historical Consciousness and the Shaping of Jewish Identity / Diamond, James A.
  • Community and Sacrality: Jewish Customs and Identity in Early Modern Worms / Bell, Dean Phillip
  • Criticism and Tradition: Leon Modena, Azariah de' Rossi, and Elijah Levita Bahur on Kabbalah and the Hebrew Vowels / Adelman, Howard Tzvi
  • MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS
  • American Jewish Immigrants and the Invention of Europe / Wenger, Beth S.
  • North American Hasidim: Between Modernity and the Old World / Lapidus, Steven
  • The Challenge of Memory for Yiddish Language Activists in Montreal / Anctil, Pierre
  • Identities, Communities, and the Infrastructures of History: Creating Canadian Jewish Archives in the 1930s and 1970s / Menkis, Richard
  • The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar Without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close / Baader, Benjamin M.
  • Macro and Micro Insights into Contemporary Jewish Identities: Europe, Israel, and the United States / Goldscheider, Calvin
  • INTERFACES BETWEEN ERAS
  • Rallying All of Israel: David Ben-Gurion and the Book of Joshua / Havrelock, Rachel
  • Who Is a Marrano?: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity / Robinson, Ira
  • The Authors
  • Index

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