The End of Jewish Modernity
Title | The End of Jewish Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Enzo Traverso |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Antisemitism |
ISBN | 9780745336664 |
A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses ofmainstream Jewish culture and politics.
Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity
Title | Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Jess Olson |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2013-01-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804785007 |
This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered mainly for his coinage of the word "Zionism," Birnbaum was a towering figure in early Jewish nationalism. Because of his unusual intellectual trajectory, however, he has been written out of Jewish history. In the middle of his life, in the depth of World War I, Birnbaum left his venerable position as a secular Jewish nationalist for religious Orthodoxy, an unheard of decision in his time. To the dismay of his former colleagues, he adopted a life of strict religiosity and was embraced as a leader in the young, growing world of Orthodox political activism in the interwar period, one of the most successful and powerful movements in interwar central and eastern Europe. Jess Olson brings to light documents from one of the most complete archives of Jewish nationalism, the Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Family Archives, including materials previously unknown in the study of Zionism, Yiddish-based Jewish nationalism, and the history of Orthodoxy. This book is an important meditation on the complexities of Jewish political and intellectual life in the most tumultuous period of European Jewish history, especially of the interplay of national, political, and religious identity in the life of one of its most fascinating figures.
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Title | Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Meyer |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2014-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814338607 |
Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.
The Jewish Decadence
Title | The Jewish Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Freedman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2021-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022658108X |
"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--
Jewish Music and Modernity
Title | Jewish Music and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Bohlman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199946841 |
Bohlman investigates several aspects of Jewish music within the context of the period beginning with the emancipation of German-Jewish culture during the eighteenth century and culminating in the destruction of that same culture under the Nazis.
Antisemitism
Title | Antisemitism PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Beller |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Antisemitism |
ISBN | 0198724837 |
Antisemitism has been a persistent presence throughout the last millennium, culminating in the dark apogee of the Holocaust. Steven Beller examines and untangles the history of the phenomenon - from medieval religious conflict, to its growth as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, and 'new' antisemitism today.
Choices in Modern Jewish Thought
Title | Choices in Modern Jewish Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene B. Borowitz |
Publisher | Behrman House, Inc |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780874415810 |
Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.