Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032098968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Michael Miller; Scott Ury

Opis

This volume addresses various aspects of the long and tangled relationship between Jews and cosmopolitanism in East Central Europe. Starting with a discussion of early modern courtiers, the collection continues with analyses of the activities of Jewish revolutionaries, trans-national economic projects spearheaded by Jews, and the response of nat

Spis treści

1. Cosmopolitanism: the end of Jewishness? Michael L. Miller and Scott Ury  2. Sabbatian Charlatans: the first Jewish cosmopolitans Pawel Maciejko  3. From liberal nationalism to cosmopolitan patriotism: Simon Deutsch and 1848ers in exile Michael L. Miller  4. Circulation and representation: Jews, department stores and cosmopolitan consumption in Germany, c.1880s – 1930s Paul Lerner  5. Jan Gottlieb Bloch: Polish cosmopolitism versus Jewish universalism Ela Bauer  6. Jews as cosmopolitans, foreigners, revolutionaries. Three images of the Jew in Polish and Russian nationalist ideology at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Semion Goldin  7. ‘Russia’s battle against the foreign’: the anti-cosmopolitanism paradigm in Russian and Soviet ideology Frank Grüner  8. The 1919 Central European revolutions and the Judeo-Bolshevik myth Eliza Ablovatski  9. The unexpected cosmopolitans – Romania’s Jewry facing the Communist system Raphael Vago  10. Imagining ‘the Jews’ in Stalinist Poland: nationalists or cosmopolites? Audrey Kichelewski  11. A jagged circle: from ethnicity to internationalism to cosmopolitanism – and back Zvi Gitelman  12. The other story: Israeli historians and Jewish ‘universalism’ Israel Bartal

O autorze

Michael L. Miller is Associate Professor in Central European University's Nationalism Studies Program in Hungary.

Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University’s Department of Jewish History in Israel, where he is also Head of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.