{"product_id":"jews-9780745660172","title":"Jews","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* A groundbreaking new study by a leading scholar on the history of the Jews and the process by which they became a diaspora people.     * Wide-ranging in scope, from the expulsion of Jews from their ancestral homeland in the Ancient world to the 'Final Solution' and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zeitlin successfully sums up extensive and detailed historical data while keeping them within a framework of the ideas he seeks to get across.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsight Turkey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of Jewish histories there is no shortage. But this remarkable book offers history from the critical perspective of sociology - itself critically examined in the light of history. In short, an intellectual feast.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Miller, Trinity College, Hartford \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This comprehensive study provides a profound discourse on the meanings and boundaries of 'Diaspora' as a central dimension of Jewish history. The author launches his historical tour of diverse Jewish religious, social, geographical, political and cultural communities with a probing \"genealogy\" of the very concept of Diaspora, including contemporary theories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick M. Denny, University of Colorado at Boulder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A prominent sociologist employs the concepts of his discipline to write diaspora Jewish history, as the story of national-religious Jewish peoplehood. Zeitlin shows that separate accounts of Jews living in different nations often miss the real connections in Jewish history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Kornberg, University of Toronto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Diaspora\" on the Genealogy of a Concept\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relation of Theory to History and the Role of the Ideal Type\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Diasporas by Robin Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic Immigration in the Early Eras of American History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiasporas by Stéphane Dufux\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatic Thinking About Dispersion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePowers of Diaspora by Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Socratic Inversion of Values\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChildren of Israel or Children of the Pharaohs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Culture and Ineffable Terror\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoutes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarieties of Jewish Religious Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResting, however, on Unifying Jewish Religious Principles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoshe Rosman's Rethinking European Jewish History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultures of the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSyncretism in Jewish History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolytheism and Monotheism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nature of Polytheism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMax Weber's Ancient Judaism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hebrew Prophets: The Setting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Prophetic Ethic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Babylonian Empire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Revolt and the Destruction of the First Temple\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emigration to Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Babylonian Exile and the Persian Supremacy (586-332BCE)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Diaspora in Babylon and Persia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander the Great and the new Hegemony of the West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe World Diaspora\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beginnings of the European Diaspora: Greece and Rome\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Diaspora in the 1st Century CE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudaism's Proselytism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jews in the Roman Near East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Ten\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jews Move to Poland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chmelnitzky Uprising of 1648-1649\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eleven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSabbatai Zevi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twelve\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGershom Scholem's Error\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDubnow on the Sabbatian Movement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Thirteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Hasidism and the Baal-Shem-Tob\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnter the Man, Israel, Who Became the Baal-Shem-Tob (abbreviated the Besht)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fundamental Principles of the Besht's Teachings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Growth of Tzaddikism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHasidism, Rabbinism and the Forerunners of the Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Fourteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jews of Spain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inquisition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jews, the Spanish and the \"Conversos Problem\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Aftermath of the Pogroms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish Mysticism: The Kabbalah in Spanish-Jewish Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Fifteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Expulsion of the Jews from Spain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conquest of Granada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Sixteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment and the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe English Deists\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarieties of Enlightenment Views on Religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRousseau\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRousseau on Judaism and the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seventeen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Germanies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emerging German National Mind\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLuther\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLuther's Attitude toward the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegel on Jews and Judaism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eighteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Left Hegelians and the \"So-Called\" Jewish Question\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruno Bauer on the \"Jewish Question\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarx's Use of the Terms \"Jew\" and \"Judaism\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeber vs. Sombart on the Spirit of Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nineteen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Religion to Race\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfro-American Ð Jewish Parallels\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur de Gobineau\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Gobineau and H. Stewart Chamberlain to Wagner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche, the Jews, and Judaism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche's Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty One\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Nazism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Versailles Treaty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of the Nazi Party\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Putsch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early Nazi Regime and the Jews as Perceived by Non-Jewish Contemporaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Three\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First World War, the Collapse of the Old Regimes and the Rise of Totalitarianism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore on Nazi Ideology, Internal Factions and Foreign-Policy Aims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Turning Point: The Attack on Poland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Four\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMax Weber on Bureaucracy and its Relevance for an Analysis of the Shoah (Holocaust)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBureaucracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerman Ideology and Bureaucracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeber's Serious Error\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Five\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharisma, Bureaucracy and the \"Final Solution\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaul Hilberg's, The Destruction of the European Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Administration of the Destructive Process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reich-Protektorat Area\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Creation of a Centralized authority in Ghettoized Jewish Communities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Polish Jews under the Nazis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Councils (Judenräte)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNazi Food Controls\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobile Killing Operations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of the Other Ethnic Groups\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefinition of \"Jew\" Again, and Himmler\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIan Kershaw's Recent Re-Examination of the Issues\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Six\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeon Poliakov's Complementary Analysis of the Shoah\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHitler's Euthanasia Program\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuschwitz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \"Death's Head\" Formations (SS Totenkopf)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBack to the Question of a Distinctive German National Character\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSignificant Political Differences Between Eastern and Western Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of the Christian Churches\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Seven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Reflection on Jewish Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twenty Eight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZionism, Israel and the Palestinians\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodore Herzl\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Jewish Presence in the Arab World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Peace Conference of 1919\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Unseen Question\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArab Rebellion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404406104407,"sku":"9780745660172","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745660172.jpg?v=1730486369","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jews-9780745660172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}