David Biale

Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical past": the anachronistic interpretation that the Diaspora, which occurred between the fall of an independent Jewish commonwealth in A.D. 70 and the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, was politically impotent, and, conversely, that the First and Second Temple periods were eras of full Jewish national sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307772534
• Artikelnr.: 38202810

Autorenporträt

DAVID BIALE is the Koret Associate Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He won the JWB National Jewish Book Award in 1980 for his previous book, Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: The Crisis of Jewish Ideology 3
I. Sovereignty and Imperialism in Antiquity 10
II. The Political Theory of the Diaspora 34
III. Corporate Power in the Middle Ages 58
IV. Absolutism·and Enlightenment 87
V. Between Haskalah and Holocaust 118
VI. Israel and the Meaning of Modern Sovereignty 145
VII. American Jews and Contemporary DiasporaPower 177
Epilogue: The Political Legacy of Jewish History 206
Notes 211
Index 2238