The Jewish Conundrum in World History / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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