The Jewish Conundrum in World History / / Alexander Militarev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Militarev, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; THE CRISIS OF MODERN JEWRY --; BEING JEWISH: RELIGION OR NATIONALITY? --; JEWISH IDENTITY IN RUSSIA --; JEWS AND THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA --; “UNIVERSAL VALUES” AND THEIR BIBLICAL ROOTS --; HOW DEEP ARE THE BIBLICAL ROOTS AND HOW OLD ARE THE JEWS? --; THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE JEWISH PHENOMENON IN HISTORY --; WHY THE JEWS? --; A CHAIN OF RANDOM EVENTS OR A PATTERN OF HISTORICAL BEHAVIOR? --; THE JEWS AND THE STRATEGY OF THE SPECIES’ SURVIVAL --; A CHANCE CONGRUENCE OF FACTORS OR A DESIGN OF MOTHER NATURE? --; THE MEANING OF THE HOLOCAUST? --; ANTI-SEMITISM --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX 1. ETYMOLOGY OF SELECTED HEBREW TERMS RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL/SPIRITUAL CULTURE --; APPENDIX 2. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ETYMOLOGY FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT WRITINGS: FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT --; APPENDIX 3 THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF WORLD LANGUAGES --; Appendix 4: The Genealogical Tree of Afrasian (Afroasiatic) Languages --; TRANSCRIPTION SIGNS AND CONVENTIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS --; INDEX OF NAMES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618110350; 9783111024080; 9783110688146
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618110350
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexander Militarev.

Following what may be conventionally called the Jewish ethno-cultural model and tracing its performance throughout history, Alexander Militarev’s book is the first scholarly attempt to apply a synthetic, comprehensive approach to the Jewish phenomenon—an alternative to the metaphysical and religious ones—and to evaluate it in a comparative context. In highlighting the unique and disproportionately great Jewish contributions, and the recent Russian Jewish contribution in particular, to human civilization, it poses as its main question: “Why the Jews?” Militarev dedicates his book to the analysis of the Jewish phenomenon, its manifold reasons and consequences. Laying bare the “kitchen” of scholarly research, Militarev embarks on a scholarly adventure akin to a film-noir who-dunnit, complete with intrigue, the need for stringent self-control, inexorable doubts, and the thrill of the chase after the enigma’s solution.