Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity / / edited by Rachel Blumenthal, Daniel M. Herskowitz, Kerstin Mayerhofer.

• Superior document: Baron Lectures. Studies on the Jewish Experience ; 1.
• TeilnehmendeR: Blumenthal, Rachel, 1963-; Herskowitz, Daniel, 1987-; Mayerhofer, Kerstin,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Baron lectures ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences were associated with being Jew ish. Even after the Shoah, the labelling of Jews as “other” continued. In this book, leading historians including Michael Brenner, Elisheva Carlebach and Michael Miller illuminate the meaning of Jewishness from pre-modern and early-modern times to the present day. Their studies offer new perspectives on constructing and experiencing Jewish identity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Baron Lectures. Studies on the Jewish Experience -- Preface -- Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity: Introduction / Rachel Blumenthal -- Constructions of Jewish and Antisemitic Identities in Antiquity: The Example of Paul / Armin Lange -- Creating an Unlike to Dislike: Constructions of Jewish Identity and Alterity in Christian Exempla Stories / Kerstin Mayerhofer -- Holocaust Survivors and Jewish Identity in Postwar Austria / Rachel Blumenthal -- A Jewish Renaissance? Reflections on Jewish Life in East Central Europe since 1989 / Michael L. Miller -- Character and Community: Aspects of Jewish Identity in Early-modern Germany / Elisheva Carlebach -- The Maimonides Renaissance in Interwar Germany: The Case of Alexander Altmann / Daniel M. Herskowitz -- New Ghetto and Emancipation: Theodor Herzl and Salo Baron on Antisemitism / Michael Brenner -- “The Son and the Stranger”: E.M. Lilien, Börries von Münchhausen, and Juda (1900) / Rose Stair -- “The Soul is Greater than the Soil”: Jewish Territorialism and the Jewish Future beyond Europe and Palestine (1905–1960) / Laura Almagor -- Encountering the Other: Constructing Jewish Identity Outside of Israel in Contemporary Israeli TV Series / Verena Hanna Dopplinger -- Michael Brenner, the Award, and Jewish Identity / Dina Porat -- List of Contributors.