Description
Book SynopsisA provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses of mainstream Jewish culture and politics
Trade Review'Enzo Traverso is without doubt the most gifted historian of his generation. His book on Jewish modernity is, as all his writings, a unique combination of radical commitment and brilliant scholarship' -- Michael Löwy, Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), and author of On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin
'Imaginative and provocative ... a nuanced and intelligent treatise' -- Benjamin Ramm, Jewish Quarterly
'Stimulating' -- Times Literary Supplement
'Exciting and delightful ... this slim volume manages to deliver a comprehensive statement which makes a significant contribution to the discourses of politics, postmodern theory and intellectual history' -- The Muslim World Book Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. What Was Jewish Modernity?
2. Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Diaspora
3. Intellectuals between Critique and Power
4. Between Two Epochs: Jewishness and Politics in Hannah Arendt
5. Metamorphoses: From Judeophobia to Islamophobia
6. Zionism: Return to the Ethnos
7. Memory: The Civil Religion of the Holocaust
Conclusion
Notes
Index
