Essays in modern Jewish history : a tribute to Ben Halpern / edited by Frances Malino and Phyllis Cohen Albert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albert, Phyllis Cohen.

Malino, Frances.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Halpern, Ben--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Halpern, Ben.

Jews--History--70-1789--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Jews.

Jews--History--1789-1945--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Zionism--History--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Zionism.

Physical Description:

343 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1981.

Contents:

Ben a personal appreciation / Marie Syrkin

Early modern Jewry: The socioeconomic background of the expulsion and readmission of the Venetian Jews, 1571-73 / Benjamim Ravid. The Portuguese Jews of seventeenth century Amsterdam: cultural continuity and adaptation / Daniel M. Swetschinski, Frankism as a "cargo cult" and the Haskalah connection: myth, ideology, and the modernization of Jewish consciousness / Hillel Levine. Attitudes toward Jewish communal autonomy in prerevolutionary France / Frances Malino

Modern Jewry: Nonorthodox attitudes in nineteenth-century French Judaism / Phyllis Cohen Albert. Prolegomenon to the study of the Jewish intellectual: some methodological proposals / Paul R. Mendes-Flohr.

Historical sociology and ideology: a prolegomenon to Yehezkel Kaufmann's Golah v'Nekhar / Laurence J. Silberstein. Flexibility as a political asset: B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Congress Movement, 1915-18 / Isaac Neustadt-Noy

Zionism: Zion and Judenstaat: the significance of the "Uganda" controversy / Ehud Luz. The disturbing of Karl Marx: Ber Borochov's achievement / Sanford Ragins. Louis Lipsky: the early years of his Zionist career / Deborah Lipstadt. Weizmann as political strategist: the initial years, 1918-20 / Jehuda Reinharz

The work of Ben Halpern: a tentative intellectual profile / Edward Goldstein. Annotated bibliography of published works / Edward Goldstein.

ISBN:

0838630952

OCLC:

7461748