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Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews / by Robert M. Seltzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seltzer, Robert.
- Series:
- Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 21.
- Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; Volume 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish historians--Russia--Biography.
- Jewish historians.
- Jews--Russia--History--19th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Russia--Social conditions--19th century.
- Russia--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- Russia.
- Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941.
- Dubnow, Simon.
- Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941--Political activity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in “Letter on Old and New Judaism” that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow’s personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter One Leaving the Shtetl / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Two From Haskalah to Positivism / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Three Young Dubnow as a Jewish Positivist / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Four Coping with New Realities / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Five Romantic Positivism / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Six The Historian Becomes a Nationalist / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Seven From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century / Robert M. Seltzer
- Chapter Eight Reconsiderations / Robert M. Seltzer
- Bibliography / Robert M. Seltzer
- Dubnow’s “Auto Bibliography” / Robert M. Seltzer
- Index / Robert M. Seltzer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-26067-6
- OCLC:
- 865657235
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004260672 DOI
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