How Jewish is Jewish history? / Moshe Rosman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosman, Moshe.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Historiography.

Jews.

Judaism--Historiography.

Judaism.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007.

Contents:

Writing Jewish history in the postmodern climate

Some a priori issues in Jewish historiography

The postmodern period in Jewish history

Hybrid with what?: The relationship between Jewish culture and other people's cultures

The Jewish contribution to (multicultural) civilization

Prolegomenon to the study of Jewish cultural history

Methodological hybridity: the art of Jewish historiography and the methods of folklore

Jewish women's history: first steps and a false start: the case of Jacob Katz

Jewish history and postmodernity: challenge and rapprochement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-216) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781904113348

1904113346

OCLC:

133465527