Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : : diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews / / by Robert M. Seltzer.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, Volume 21
• Author: Seltzer, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter One Leaving the Shtetl /; Chapter Two From Haskalah to Positivism /; Chapter Three Young Dubnow as a Jewish Positivist /; Chapter Four Coping with New Realities /; Chapter Five Romantic Positivism /; Chapter Six The Historian Becomes a Nationalist /; Chapter Seven From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century /; Chapter Eight Reconsiderations /; Bibliography /; Dubnow’s “Auto Bibliography” /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004260676
• ISSN: 1873-9008
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Robert M. Seltzer.

In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in “Letter on Old and New Judaism” that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow’s personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.