Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire

ISBN-13: 9781316649848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 752 str.

Malachi Haim Hacohen

Opis

This ambitious alternative Jewish European history for once accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

Recenzje

'A short review can hardly begin even to gesture towards this magisterial work's sheer breadth and depth and intellectual vigour. Readers must discover it for themselves.' Walter Moberly, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration from Hebrew to English; Introduction: Jewish European history; 1. Writing Jewish European history; 2. Rabbinic Jacob and Esau, Pagan Rome, and the Christian Empire; 3. Esau, Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom; 4. Waning Edom? Early Modern Christian-Jewish Hybridities; 5. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, I: 1789–1839; 6. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, II: 1840–1878; 7. The Austrian Jewish Intelligentsia between empire and nation, 1879–1918; 8. Imperial peoples in an ethnonational age? Jews and other Austrians in the First Republic, 1918–1938; 9. Jacob the Jew: Antisemitism and the end of emancipation, 1879–1935; 10. Esau the Goy: Jewish and German ethnic myths, 1891–1945; 11. Typology and the Holocaust: Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe; 12. Postwar Europe: Austria, the Congress for cultural freedom, and the internationalization of European culture; 13. A post-Holocaust breakthrough? Jacob and Esau today; Epilogue: the end of postwar exceptionalism.