Major Turning Points In Jewish Intellectual History
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Major Turning Points In Jewish Intellectual History
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Author : D. Aberbach
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-11-05
Major Turning Points In Jewish Intellectual History written by D. Aberbach and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-05 with History categories.
This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety of topics including prophecy, Jewish law, Midrash, the Roman-Jewish wars, Stoicism, secular poetry in Muslim Spain, Marx and Freud, and Hebrew literature through the ages.
Turning Points In Jewish History
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Author : Marc Rosenstein
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-07-01
Turning Points In Jewish History written by Marc Rosenstein and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-01 with History categories.
Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people’s experience from biblical times through the present—essentially the most important events in the life of the Jewish people—Turning Points in Jewish History provides “the big picture”: both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish historical experience. Zeroing in on eight turning points in the biblical period, four in Hellenistic-Roman times, five in the Middle Ages, and thirteen in modernity, Marc J. Rosenstein elucidates each formative event with a focused history, a timeline, a primary text with commentary as an intimate window into the period, and a discussion of its legacy for subsequent generations. Along the way he candidly analyzes various controversies and schisms arising from Judaism’s encounters with power, powerlessness, exile, messianism, rationalism, mysticism, catastrophe, modernity, nationalism, feminism, and more. The book’s thirty distinct and logically connected events lend themselves to a full course or to customized classes on specific turning points. Discussion questions for every chapter (some in print, more online) facilitate reflection and continuing conversation.
Intellectual Dynamics In The Middle East And North Africa
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Author : Ewan Stein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Intellectual Dynamics In The Middle East And North Africa written by Ewan Stein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Social Science categories.
More than three years after the beginning of the wave of Arab uprisings, an understanding of the role of intellectuals in political change across the region has never been more important. This timely volume on Intellectuals in the Modern Middle East combines geographical and chronological breadth and draws on a diverse range of approaches including intellectual history, political science, art history, social policy and political philosophy. Together, the chapters provide a window into the diversity in intellectual trends across the Middle East from the early decades of the 20th century until the present day. While they do not, and cannot, provide a complete, or even representative, picture of intellectual dynamics in the modern Middle East, they collectively address a range of analytical and normative issues that bear on the role of the intellectual in contemporary Middle Eastern politics and society. This book was published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
Jewish History A Very Short Introduction
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Author : David N. Myers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-18
Jewish History A Very Short Introduction written by David N. Myers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with History categories.
How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely-and decidedly this-worldly--factors to explain the survival of the Jews: antisemitism and assimilation. Usually regarded as grave dangers, these two factors have continually interacted with one other to enable the persistence of the Jews. At every turn in their history, not just in the modern age, Jews have adapted to new environments, cultures, languages, and social norms. These bountiful encounters with host societies have exercised the cultural muscle of the Jews, preventing the atrophy that would have occurred if they had not interacted so extensively with the non-Jewish world. It is through these encounters--indeed, through a process of assimilation--that Jews came to develop distinct local customs, speak many different languages, and cultivate diverse musical, culinary, and intellectual traditions. Left unchecked, the Jews' well-honed ability to absorb from surrounding cultures might have led to their disappearance. And yet, the route toward full and unbridled assimilation was checked by the nearly constant presence of hatred toward the Jew. Anti-Jewish expression and actions have regularly accompanied Jews throughout history. Part of the ironic success of antisemitism is its malleability, its talent in assuming new forms and portraying the Jew in diverse and often contradictory images--for example, at once the arch-capitalist and revolutionary Communist. Antisemitism not only served to blunt further assimilation, but, in a paradoxical twist, affirmed the Jew's sense of difference from the host society. And thus together assimilation and antisemitism (at least up to a certain limit) contribute to the survival of the Jews as a highly adaptable and yet distinct group.
Studies In Nineteenth Century Jewish Intellectual History
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Author : Alexander Altmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1964
Studies In Nineteenth Century Jewish Intellectual History written by Alexander Altmann and has been published by Cambridge, Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Social Science categories.
The Grace Of Misery Joseph Roth And The Politics Of Exile 1919 1939 Paperback
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Author : Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-10-19
The Grace Of Misery Joseph Roth And The Politics Of Exile 1919 1939 Paperback written by Ilse Josepha Lazaroms and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.
Jewish History
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Author : Simon Dubnow
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-22
Jewish History written by Simon Dubnow and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with History categories.
"Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History" by Simon Dubnow Simon Dubnow was a Jewish-Russian historian, writer and activist. In this book, he put his academic expertise to use to pen a heritage history of the Jewish culture and religion. Not only does he lay out a factual timeline of events, but he also discusses the importance of remembering and preserving this part of the past and its effect on cultural development around the world.
Jewish Education And History
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Author : Moshe Aberbach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Jewish Education And History written by Moshe Aberbach and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Education categories.
Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage of biblical and talmudic studies, and discussions of the roots of religious anti-Zionism and of the Lubavitch messianic movement in the context of similar movements in Jewish history. Focusing on the history of Jewish education and linking the Roman destruction of the Jewish state in 70 CE with Jewish survival after the Holocaust, and how survival of both depended on a strong system of education and the moral example set by teachers, the book explores the vital importance of education to Jewish survival from biblical times to the present. The book includes an autobiographical memoir of Moshe Aberbach’s childhood in Vienna, as well as a biographical Foreword by his son, David. It will be of great interest to Bible scholars and students of Jewish Studies, History, the Holocaust and Jewish social psychology.
The Jewish Intellectual Tradition
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Author : Alan Kadish
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The Jewish Intellectual Tradition written by Alan Kadish and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even life-changing, implications for individual and societal achievement. These principles include respect for tradition while encouraging independent, often disruptive thinking; a precise system of logical reasoning in pursuit of the truth; universal education continuing through adulthood; and living a purposeful life. The main objective of this book is to understand the historical development of these principles and to demonstrate how applying them judiciously can lead to greater intellectual productivity, a more fulfilling existence, and a more advanced society.
Byron And The Jews
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Author : Sheila A. Spector
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Byron And The Jews written by Sheila A. Spector and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.