Reappraisals and new studies of the modern Jewish experience : : essays in honor of Robert M. Seltzer / / edited by Brian Smollett and Christian Wiese ; contributors, Elissa Bemporad [and nineteen others].
Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present in t...
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| Superior document: | Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 44 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill reference library of Judaism ;
Volume 44. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (467 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period / Christian Wiese
- Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów / Gershon David Hundert
- Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation / William Cutter
- Saul Borovoi’s Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times / Brian Horowitz
- Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk Legitimacy / Elissa Bemporad
- Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage / Jane S. Gerber
- Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica / Stanley Mirvis
- Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550–1700 / David Sorkin
- From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger / Michael A. Meyer
- Kaplan and Personality / Mel Scult
- How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus / Zach Mann
- Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin’s Thought / Arie M. Dubnov
- Martin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn / Christian Wiese
- The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn / Brian M. Smollett
- How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools / Stephan F. Brumberg
- Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry / Bruce L. Ruben
- An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930's / Naomi W. Cohen
- Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century / Mark A. Raider
- “We Must Build Anew”: Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise’s Jewish Institute of Religion / Shirley Idelson
- A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges / Sanford Ragins
- Writings of Robert M. Seltzer / Roberta S. Newman
- Index.