Jews and diaspora nationalism : writings on Jewish peoplehood in Europe and the United States / edited by Simon Rabinovitch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabinovitch, Simon.

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

The Tauber institute series for the study of European Jewry

The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish nationalism--History.

Jewish nationalism.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jewish nationalism--Europe--History.

Zionism.

Judaism and politics.

Socialism and Judaism.

Jews--United States--Identity.

History.

United States.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Europe.

Physical Description:

xli pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass : Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Summary:

An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

The question of how to preserve, construct, or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the vitality of Jewish existence in the diaspora, the key works have never been collected in a single volume, and few reliable English translations exist.

This anthology brings together a variety of thinkers who offered competing visions of peoplehood within the established and developing Jewish diaspora centers of Europe and America. Writing in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and English, these Jewish intellectuals sought to recast Jewish existence, whether within multiethnic empires, liberal democracies, or socialist forms of government, in national terms.

Volume editor Simon Rabinovitch provides an introductory essay, as well as short introductions and annotations to each document that contextualize and make accessible this wealth of primary sources for scholars and students. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pt. 1 From Haskala to national renaissance

Pt. 2. Socialism and the question of Jewish peoplehood

Pt. 3 Preservation and reconstruction in the republics.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781584657613

1584657618

9781584657620

1584657626

9781611683622

1611683629

OCLC:

785870499