Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

Mit Ludwig Feuchtwangers Judischer Geschichte ist ein bislang unpubliziert gebliebenes Werk judischer Historiographie zu entdecken. Der Autor, Verleger bei Duncker & Humblot und Bruder von Lion Feuchtwanger, behandelt in dem unvollendeten, gleichwohl vom Autor selbst zum Druck bestimmten Text die Zeit von 1200 v.u.Z. bis 1250 n.u.Z. Dabei nimmt er viele paradigmatische Gestalten der judischen Geschichte (wie Philon und Maimonides) in den Blick und betont die zentrale Bedeutung der Religion fur die "Selbstbehauptung" des Judentums in seiner Geschichte. Im historischen Spiegel...

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die asthetische Verarbeitung der Spannung zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Sichtbarkeit, die dem Verhaltnis von Juden und den europaischen Mehrheitsgesellschaften in der so genannten Emanzipationszeit des 19. Jahrhunderts zugrunde liegen. Zentral ist dabei die Frage nach der Bedeutung des Wortes "Jude" in diesen Diskursen. Dabei werden keine koharenten Identitatsmodelle herausgearbeitet, sondern durch das Aufzeigen von Dissonanzen die Komplexitat und die Grenzen unterschiedlicher Modellierungen von Identitat untersucht. So lassen sich zum Beispiel...

The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).

Using a variety of comparative methodologies; from contrasting the Jewish state to other minorities in the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the rise of the four Tigers in Asia to newly independent countries and revolutionary socialist countries in Europe and Asia, Jonathan Adelman examines how Israel has gained the strength to...

Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews?

Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity with adherence in varying degrees to Jewish practices, without viewing such behaviour as contradictory. Several Christian leaders thought that these community members dangerously blurred the boundaries between Christianity and Judaism....

In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores the...

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:

• How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies.
• How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power,...

Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike.

Kotik's story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in...

This book provides a general history of the rise of Israel since the early Zionist efforts at state building. In particular it seeks to show how unlikely Israel's creation was and that it should best be understood as a series of revolutions.