{"product_id":"prophets-of-the-past-9780691139289","title":"Prophets of the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. This book traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany; to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow and the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-translated and welcome addition to Jewish history collections.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi  Introduction: Viewpoints on Jewish History 1  Objectivity and Partiality 2  Remembering and Forgetting 4  Nation and Religion 6  Scholarship and Ideology 9  Heroes and Eras 12      Chapter 1: Jewish History as History of Religion  Wissenschaft des Judentums in the Service  of Reform and Emancipation 17  Christian Beginnings 18  Traditional Reverberations 21  In the Service of Religious Reform 24  In the Battle for Political Emancipation 27  Jewish Religious History as Counterhistory 36  One Religion among Numerous Nations 42      Chapter 2: Between Religion and Nation  Graetz and His Construction of Jewish History 53  The Battle against Reform and Assimilation 57  Only a History of Suffering and Learning? 60  The Debate with Christianity and Germanness 64  Rationalism and Mysticism 68  Translations and New Interpretations 73  External Opinions on Jewish History 82      Chapter 3: The Nationalization of Jewish History The View from the East 93  Dubnow: Diaspora Nationalism as a Historical Concept 93  Polish Jewish Historiography between the Wars 106  Under the Soviet Star: Jewish History as Class History 114      Chapter 4: Jewish History without Tears?  New Perspectives in the West 121  Baron in New York: Against the Lachrymose Version of Jewish History 123  Roth in Oxford: More Than a History of Victims 131  From the Salon to the Academy: The Beginnings of Jewish Women's History 136  The Return of Tears: Jewish History versus the History of the \"Jewish Question\" 144  A Signal in Dark Times: The \"Jewish Contribution\" to Civilization 151      Chapter 5: The Return of the Nation to Its Land Zionist Narrative Perspectives 157  The Revolt against the Father: The Break with Wissenschaft des Judentums 158  Patricide: Scholem's Metaphorics of Death 163  New Fathers: The \"Jerusalem School\" under Baer and Dinur 171  New Sons: Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson, Shmuel Ettinger, and Jacob Katz 183  The Revolt of the Grandchildren: The New Historians 192      Chapter 6: Postmodern Influences A New Subjectivity 197  From One Jewish Community to Many Jewish Cultures 204  Epilogue 217  Notes 221  References 265  Index 297","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403764605271,"sku":"9780691139289","price":48.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prophets-of-the-past-9780691139289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}