Making History Jewish

The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Studies in Honor of Professor Israel Bartal
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43196-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Studia Judaeoslavica

This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish. While practitioners of Jewish history often assume that “the Jews” are a well-defined ethno-national unit with a distinct, continuous history, this volume questions many of the assumptions that underlie and ultimately help construct Jewish history. Starting with a number of articles on the Jews of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Poland and Hungary, continuing with several studies of Jewish encounters with the advent of nationalism and antisemitism, and concluding with a set of essays on Jewish history and politics in twentieth-century eastern Europe, pre-state Palestine and North America, the volume discusses the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maciejko, Pawel

Ury, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

Pawel Maciejko and Scott Ury

Part 1
East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity

2 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland

Gershon David Hundert

3 Me’ora’ot tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century

Jonatan Meir

Part 2
Jews and Non-Jews

4 “I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings”: Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities

Elliott Horowitz, z”l

5 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend

Michael K. Silber

6 “The Great Sir, Unique Among His People”: Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore

François Guesnet

7 Nation or Religion? The Polish–Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity

Marcin Wodzinski

Part 3
Nationalism and Antisemitism

8 Liberalism, Nationalism and the “Jewish Question” in Late Imperial Russia

Semion Goldin

9 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades

David Engel

Part 4
Zionism and Its Others

10 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire

Derek J. Penslar

11 Judaism and Islam in Pre-state Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz

Hanan Harif

Part 5
History and Community

12 Dubnow’s Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s The Golden Tradition

Nancy Sinkoff

13 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-determination

Richard I. Cohen

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pawel Maciejko is Associate Professor of History and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816 (2011) and Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (2017).

Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012) and of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2014).