Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History

ISBN-13: 9783030482398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 429 str.

Green, Abigail

Opis

"This volume is important and refreshing. The individual chapters shed new light on old questions or illuminate little known histories with larger implications. The book has the potential to bridge multiple fields and shift paradigms." - Ethan Katz , Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Offers a strikingly new and provocative account of Liberalism's relationship to Jews. Previous scholarship stressed that Liberalism had to overcome its ambivalence in order to achieve a principled stand on granting Jews rights and equality. This volume asserts instead, in great detail and through multiple examples, that Liberalism excluded many groups including Jews, so that the exclusion of Jews was indeed integral to Liberalism and constitutive for it. This is an important volume with a challenging argument for the present moment." - David Sorkin , Lucy G. Moses Professor of Jewish History, Yale University, USA This edited collection re-imagines a field that has been shaped by European experiences and paradigms in the light of a broader historiographical moment that has tended to provincialize Europe and to explore issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, without taking much account of Jews. The volume integrates established historiographical concerns like liberalism, emancipation and antisemitism that have traditionally been studied in national, local and primarily European contexts, with the new perspectives opened-up by transnational history and the global and imperial turn. Rather than seeking to establish a one-size fits all model, the volume highlights the way in which different chronologies and starting points ensured that quite similar processes could take place in very different contexts at different moments.

Recenzje

"All three volumes help move the historiography of antisemitism forward in a way that has long been needed, presenting a panorama of new and interesting perspectives about an old but still important, relevant, and hotly debated theme." (Shulamit Volkov, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 33, 2023)

"The volume is a major contribution to the field of modern Jewish history. It is remarkable for a project with such an ambitious agenda that it largely succeeds to deliver on its promises. ... It should be considered as a major historiographical intervention that will hopefully become a reference point not only for historians of Jews and antisemitism but also for future research on liberalism, colonialism, minorities, genocide, and human rights." (Ludwig Decke, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (6), 2022)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: Towards a 21st Century History- Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam

Part 1: The Limits of Liberalism

2. Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries- Lisa M. Leff

3. Osman Bey’s The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): a Liberal Antisemitism? - 

Simon Levis Sullam

4. Jews and Other Others- Ari Joskowicz

Part 2: Living Liberalism

5. The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution- Laura Leibman

6. Liberalism, Antisemitism and Everyday Life in Vienna: The Tragic Case of Heinrich Jaques (1831-1894)-  Jonathan Kwan

7. Giving and Dying in Liberal Italy: Jewish Men and Women in Italian Culture Wars -

Luisa Levi D’Ancona

Part 3: Rethinking East-West

8. Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad- Michal Rose Friedman

9. A Model Millet? Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire -Julia Phillips Cohen

10. From East to West: America as the Liberal Melting Pot of Jewish Politics- Matt Silver

Part 4: Liberalism, Empire, Zionism

11. Who Introduced Liberalism into the Damascus Affair (1840)? Center, Periphery, and Networks in the Jewish Response to the Blood Libel- Yaron Tsur

12. A Jewish “Liberal” in Istanbul: Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Young Turks, and the Zionist Press Network, 1908-1911- Ozan Ozavci

13. Jews, Imperial Liberalism, and the Predicament of “Small Nations”: Lewis B. Namier’s Gentry Nationalism- Arie M. Dubnov

Part 5: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Liberalism

14. 1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution- Abigail Green

15. “A Certain Kind of Liberalism”: Jewish Minority Rights in Eastern Europe and Beyond- James Loeffler

16. The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism- Malachi Haim Hacohen

Afterword - Samuel Moyn

O autorze

Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and at Brasenose College, UK.

Simon Levis Sullam is Associate Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy.

Blurb

“This is a timely contribution to some of the most pressing debates facing scholars of Jewish Studies today. It forces us to re-think standard approaches to both antisemitism and liberalism. Its geographic scope offers a model for how scholars can “provincialize” Europe and engage in a transnational approach to Jewish history. The book crackles with intellectual energy; it is truly a pleasure to read.”

- Jessica M. Marglin, University of Southern California, USA

Green and Levis Sullam have assembled a collection of original, and provocative essays that, in illuminating the historic relationship between Jews and liberalism, transform our understanding of liberalism itself.  

- Derek Penslar, Harvard University, USA

“This book offers a strikingly new account of Liberalism’s relationship to Jews. Previous scholarship stressed that Liberalism had to overcome its abivalence in order to achieve a principled stand on granting Jews rights and equality. This volume asserts, through multiple examples, that Liberalism excluded many groups, including Jews, so that the exclusion of Jews was indeed integral to Liberalism and constitutive for it. This is an important volume, with a challenging argument for the present moment.”

- David Sorkin, Yale University, USA

The emancipatory promise of liberalism – and its exclusionary qualities – shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire. Yet historians have mostly understood the relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism as a European story, defined by the collapse of liberalism and the Holocaust. This volume challenges that perspective by taking a global approach. It takes account of recent historical work that explores issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, but which has done so without taking much account of Jews. Individual essays explore how liberalism, citizenship, nationality, gender, religion, race functioned differently in European Jewish heartlands, in the Mediterranean peripheries of Spain and the Ottoman empire, and in the North American Atlantic world.