History, memory, and Jewish identity / edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Ira, 1951- editor.

Cohn, Naftali S., editor.

DiTommaso, Lorenzo, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

North American Jewish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Collective memory.

Jews--History.

History.

Jewish diaspora.

Physical Description:

x, 378 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews' choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ancient Period

The Causes of the Alexandrian Pogrom and the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in 38 CE / Lionel Jehuda Sanders Sanders, Lionel Jehuda 2

Sectarianism in the Mishnah: Memory, Modeling Society, and Rabbinic Identity / Naftali S. Cohn Cohn, Naftali S. 31

Power and the (Re)Creation of Collective-Cultural Memory in Early Judaism: The Case of the Mishnah / Jack N. Lightstone Lightstone, Jack N. 55

Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Maimonides vs. Nahmanides on Historical Consciousness and the Shaping of Jewish Identity / James A. Diamond Diamond, James A. 92

Community and Sacrality: Jewish Customs and Identity in Early Modern Worms / Dean Phillip Bell Bell, Dean Phillip 117

Criticism and Tradition: Leon Modena, Azariah de' Rossi, and Elijah Levita Bahur on Kabbalah and the Hebrew Vowels / Howard Tzvi Adelman Adelman, Howard Tzvi 147

Modern and Contemporary Periods

American Jewish Immigrants and the Invention of Europe / Beth S. Wenger Wenger, Beth S. 172

North American Hasidim: Between Modernity and the Old World / Steven Lapidus Lapidus, Steven 192

The Challenge of Memory for Yiddish Language Activists in Montreal / Pierre Anctil Anctil, Pierre 211

Identities, Communities, and the Infrastructures of History: Creating Canadian Jewish Archives in the 1930s and 1970s / Richard Menkis Menkis, Richard 233

The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar Without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close / Benjamin M. Baader Baader, Benjamin M. 257

Macro and Micro Insights into Contemporary Jewish Identities: Europe, Israel, and the United States / Calvin Goldscheider Goldscheider, Calvin 294

Interfaces between Eras

Rallying All of Israel: David Ben-Gurion and the Book of Joshua / Rachel Havrelock Havrelock, Rachel 316

Who Is a Marrano?: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity / Ira Robinson Robinson, Ira 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1618114743

9781618114747

OCLC:

944474135

Publisher Number:

99966606256