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The Cambridge History of Judaism

Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000

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Robin Judd, Olga Litvak, Scott Ury, Matthias B. Lehmann, Adam Mendelsohn, Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Lesser, Raanan Rein, Yaron Tzur, Derek Penslar, Pierre Birnbaum, Todd M. Endelman, Claire E. Sufrin, David Engel, Jack Jacobs, Jonathan Karp, Eli Lederhendler, Gary B. Cohen, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel, Jonathan Judaken, Todd Samuel Presner, Eran Kaplan, Samuel Kassow, Zohar Shavit, Yaakov Shavit, Nancy E. Berg, Axel Stähler, Shachar Pinsker, Mikhail Krutikov, David N. Myers, Leora Auslander, Andrea Most, Amy Horowitz, Galeet Dardashti, Tobias Brinkmann, Jonathan Boyarin, Naomi Seidman, Ulrich Charpa, Jody Myers, Jess Olson, Susannah Heschel, Ivan Kalmar
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  • Date Published: November 2017
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521769532

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  • The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815–2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a series of interlocking surveys that address the history of diverse areas of Jewish settlement. The second part is organized around the emancipation. Here, chapter themes are grouped around the challenges posed by and to this elemental feature of Jewish life in the modern period. The third part adopts a thematic approach organized around the category 'culture', with the goal of casting a wide net in terms of perspectives, concepts and topics. The final part then focuses on the twentieth century, offering readers a sense of the dynamic nature of Judaism and Jewish identities and affiliations.

    • Provides a comprehensive treatment of Jewish history, culture and society in the modern era
    • There is no comparable volume in existence
    • Combines geographic surveys with thematic essays
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    • Date Published: November 2017
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521769532
    • length: 1160 pages
    • dimensions: 237 x 160 x 48 mm
    • weight: 1.5kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels
    Part I. History and Geography:
    1. Central and Western Europe Robin Judd
    2. Russian and Soviet Jewry Olga Litvak
    3. Poland Scott Ury
    4. The Balkans and South-Eastern Europe Matthias B. Lehmann
    5. Great Britain, the Commonwealth and Anglophone Jewry Adam Mendelsohn
    6. The United States Hasia Diner
    7. The Hispanic world/Latin America Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein
    8. Colonial and post-Colonial Jewries: the Middle East, Africa and Central/Southern Asia Yaron Tzur
    9. Israel Derek Penslar
    Part II. Emancipation: Challenges and Consequences:
    10. Jews and the modern state Pierre Birnbaum
    11. Assimilation and assimilationism Todd M. Endelman
    12. Liberal Judaisms Claire E. Sufrin
    13. The new Jewish politics David Engel
    14. Jews and the Left Jack Jacobs
    15. Jews and commerce Jonathan Karp
    16. Jews and social class Eli Lederhendler
    17. Education and the politics of Jewish integration Gary B. Cohen
    18. Philanthropy, diplomacy and Jewish internationalism Jonathan Dekel-Chen
    19. Jews and modern European imperialism Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel
    20. Antisemitism and the Jewish question Jonathan Judaken
    21. Generation, degeneration, regeneration: health, disease and the Jewish body Todd Samuel Presner
    22. Zionism and its critics Eran Kaplan
    23. The Holocaust and its aftermath Samuel Kassow
    Part III. Jewish Cultures, National and Transnational:
    24. Jewish culture: what is it? Zohar Shavit and Yaakov Shavit
    25. Sephardic and Mizrachi literature Nancy E. Berg
    26. Anglophone literature Axel Stähler
    27. Hebrew literature Shachar Pinsker
    28. Yiddish Mikhail Krutikov
    29. Jewish studies: history, memory, scholarship David N. Myers
    30. Jews and material culture Leora Auslander
    31. Jews and popular culture in the twentieth century: North America Andrea Most
    32. Jews and popular culture in the twentieth century: Israel and the Middle East Amy Horowitz and Galeet Dardashti
    Part IV. Jews in the Modern World:
    33. The dynamics of modernity: shifts in demography and geography Tobias Brinkmann
    34. In search of authenticity: issues of identity and belonging in the twentieth century Jonathan Boyarin
    35. Gender and the re-making of modern Jewry Naomi Seidman
    36. Jews and science Ulrich Charpa
    37. Mysticism and messianism Jody Myers
    38. Orthodoxy and ultra-Orthodoxy as forces in modern Jewish life Jess Olson
    39. Jews and Christianity Susannah Heschel
    40. Jews and Islam Ivan Kalmar
    Index.

  • Editors

    Mitchell B. Hart, University of Florida
    Mitchell B. Hart is Professor of History and the Alexander Grass Chair of Jewish History at the University of Florida. His first book, Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (2000), won the Salo Baron Prize. He is also the author of The Healthy Jew (Cambridge, 2007), and the editor of Jewish Blood (2009) and Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940 (2011).

    Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of the award-winning book, A Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012).

    Contributors

    Robin Judd, Olga Litvak, Scott Ury, Matthias B. Lehmann, Adam Mendelsohn, Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Lesser, Raanan Rein, Yaron Tzur, Derek Penslar, Pierre Birnbaum, Todd M. Endelman, Claire E. Sufrin, David Engel, Jack Jacobs, Jonathan Karp, Eli Lederhendler, Gary B. Cohen, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel, Jonathan Judaken, Todd Samuel Presner, Eran Kaplan, Samuel Kassow, Zohar Shavit, Yaakov Shavit, Nancy E. Berg, Axel Stähler, Shachar Pinsker, Mikhail Krutikov, David N. Myers, Leora Auslander, Andrea Most, Amy Horowitz, Galeet Dardashti, Tobias Brinkmann, Jonathan Boyarin, Naomi Seidman, Ulrich Charpa, Jody Myers, Jess Olson, Susannah Heschel, Ivan Kalmar

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