Rethinking European Jewish History.

This timely volume suggests a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Jeremy (Author)
Other Authors: Rosman, Moshe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2014.
Subjects:
Jews > Europe > History.
Judaism > Europe > History.
Juifs > Europe > Histoire.
Judaïsme > Europe > Histoire.
Judaism
Jews
Ethnic relations
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Europe > Relations interethniques.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Reorienting the Narrative
  • Chapter 1. Jewish History across Borders
  • Chapter 2. Away from a Definition of Antisemitism: An Essay in the Semantics of Historical Description
  • Chapter 3. Does Gender Matter? Locating Women in European Jewish History
  • Chapter 4. Assimilation and Cultural Exchange in Modern Jewish History
  • Part II: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
  • Chapter 5. Jewish Cultural History in Early Modern Europe: An Agenda for Future Study
  • Chapter 6. The Reformation and the Jews
  • Chapter 7. Re(de)fining Modernity in Jewish History
  • Part III: On the Eve of the Spanish Expulsion
  • Chapter 8. Spanish 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' in an Age of Mass Conversion
  • Chapter 9. The Social Context of Apostasy among Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jewry: Dynamics of a New Religious Borderland
  • Part IV: From Europe to America and Back
  • Chapter 10. Transnationalism and Mutual Influence: American and East European Jewries in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Chapter 11. Transplanting the Heart Back East: Returning Jewish Musical Culture from the United States to Europe
  • Contributors
  • Index

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