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Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives

Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives

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JudaismGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 900415289X
ISBN13: 9789004152892
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: May 11 2007
Pages: 658
Weight: 2.94
Height: 1.78 Width: 6.73 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
The volume, composed by excellent scholars from different academic disciplines, is a comprehensive handbook devoted to the complex relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking in Europe, the United States, and Israel from the Enlightenment to the present. Apart from analyzing the emergence of a new scholarly historical paradigm during this period, the contributions interpret the interaction and the tensions between Jewish historiography and other disciplines such as literature, theology, sociology, and philosophy, describe the way historical consciousness was popularized and used for ideological purposes and explore the impact of different - religious or secular - identities on the historical representation of the Jewish past. A final part envisions new theoretical and methodological concepts within the field, including cultural studies and gender studies.

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