Making history Jewish : the dialectics of Jewish history in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, studies in honor of professor Israel Bartal / edited by Paweł Maciejko and Scott Ury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maciejko, Paweł, 1971- editor.

Ury, Scott, editor.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica ; Volume 12.

Studia Judaeoslavica ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Zionism--History--19th century.

Zionism.

Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish. While practitioners of Jewish history often assume that “the Jews” are a well-defined ethno-national unit with a distinct, continuous history, this volume questions assumptions that underlie and ultimately help construct Jewish history. Starting with a number of articles on the Jews of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Poland and Hungary, continuing with several studies of Jewish encounters with the advent of nationalism and antisemitism, and concluding with a set of essays on Jewish history and politics in twentieth-century eastern Europe, pre-state Palestine and North America, the volume discusses the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

Paweł Maciejko and Scott Ury

Part 1 East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity

2 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland

Gershon David Hundert

3 Me’ora’ot tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century

Jonatan Meir

Part 2 Jews and Non-Jews

4 “I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings”: Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities

Elliott Horowitz, z”l

5 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend

Michael K. Silber

6 “The Great Sir, Unique Among His People”: Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore

François Guesnet

7 Nation or Religion? The Polish–Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity

Marcin Wodziński

Part 3 Nationalism and Antisemitism

8 Liberalism, Nationalism and the “Jewish Question” in Late Imperial Russia

Semion Goldin

9 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades

David Engel

Part 4 Zionism and Its Others

10 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire

Derek J. Penslar

11 Judaism and Islam in Pre-state Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz

Hanan Harif

Part 5 History and Community

12 Dubnow’s Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s The Golden Tradition

Nancy Sinkoff

13 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-determination

Richard I. Cohen

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43197-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004431973 DOI