Nationalism, War and Jewish Education: From the Roman Empire to Modern Times

ISBN-13: 9780367584856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

David Aberbach

Opis

This book explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish nationalism grew in the 19th and early 20th century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Nationalism and Jewish Education in the Roman Era

1. The early Roman background: Jewish education and Jewish/Greek relations

2. Roman government, Greek freedmen and Jewish education

3. Josephus and the struggle for Jewish accommodation with Rome

4. Defeat, nationalism and Jewish education after 70 CE

5. Jewish education, Roman and Jewish law and Stoic philosophy

6. The Mishna, Galilee, and Jewish education

7. The rabbis and Jewish education as history

8. How did Jewish education affect class differences?

9. Education in the love of Israel: the anti-prophetic streak in rabbinic literature

10. The double standard of Jewish education

11. To pay or not to pay? The problem of the schoolteacher

Part 2: From Emancipation to Political Nationalism, 1789-1948

12. Jewish education and the rise of the secular state

13. Emancipation and the Jewish return to war

14. Heresy and continuity in post-1789 Jewish education

15. Emancipation, the Hebrew revival and the retreat from Hebrew

16. Jewish education in Hebrew literature

17. Pogroms and Jewish militarization

18. The revival of Hebrew 1917-1939

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Studies, McGill University, Montreal. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, the LSE, UCL, and Harvard. His work bridges the arts and social sciences; his books include, Surviving Trauma: loss, literature, and psychoanalysis; Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media; and National Poetry, Empires and War.