Irving M. Zeitlin

Jews

The Making of a Diaspora People

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the time of the Babylonian exile; it has come to express the characteristic uniqueness of the Jewish historical experience. Zeitlin retraces the history of the Jewish diaspora from the ancient world to the present, beginning with expulsion from their ancestral homeland and concluding with the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In mapping this process, Zeitlin argues that the Jews' religious self-understanding was crucial in enabling them to cope with the serious and recurring challenges they have had to face throughout their history. He analyses the varied reactions the Jews encountered from their so-called 'host peoples', paying special attention to the attitudes of famous thinkers such as Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wagner, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, the Left Hegelians, Marx and others, who didn't shy away from making explicit their opinions of the Jews.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies, diaspora studies, history and religion, as well as to general readers keen to learn more about the history of the Jewish experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780745660172
• ISBN-10: 0745660177
• Artikelnr.: 34999746

Autorenporträt

Irving M. Zeitlin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a leading authority on the sociology of religion. His many books include The Historical Muhammad, Jesus and the Judaism of His Time and Ancient Judaism .

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter One "Diaspora" on the Genealogy of a Concept The Relation
of Theory to History and the Role of the Ideal Type Global Diasporas by
Robin Cohen Ethnic Immigration in the Early Eras of American History
Diasporas by Stéphane Dufux Static Thinking About Dispersion Powers of
Diaspora by Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin The Socratic Inversion of
Values The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul
Gilroy Children of Israel or Children of the Pharaohs Black Culture and
Ineffable Terror Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth
Century by James Clifford Chapter Two Varieties of Jewish Religious
Experience Resting, however, on Unifying Jewish Religious Principles Moshe
Rosman's Rethinking European Jewish History Cultures of the Jews Syncretism
in Jewish History Polytheism and Monotheism The Nature of Polytheism
Chapter Three Max Weber's Ancient Judaism The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting
The Prophetic Ethic Chapter Four The Babylonian Empire The Revolt and the
Destruction of the First Temple The Emigration to Egypt Chapter Five The
Babylonian Exile and the Persian Supremacy (586-332BCE) The Diaspora in
Babylon and Persia Chapter Six Alexander the Great and the new Hegemony of
the West Chapter Seven The World Diaspora The Beginnings of the European
Diaspora: Greece and Rome Chapter Eight The Diaspora in the 1st Century CE
Judaism's Proselytism Chapter Nine The Jews in the Roman Near East Chapter
Ten The Jews Move to Poland The Chmelnitzky Uprising of 1648-1649 Chapter
Eleven Sabbatai Zevi Chapter Twelve Gershom Scholem's Error Dubnow on the
Sabbatian Movement Chapter Thirteen The Rise of Hasidism and the
Baal-Shem-Tob Enter the Man, Israel, Who Became the Baal-Shem-Tob
(abbreviated the Besht) The Fundamental Principles of the Besht's Teachings
The Growth of Tzaddikism Hasidism, Rabbinism and the Forerunners of the
Enlightenment Chapter Fourteen The Jews of Spain The Inquisition The Jews,
the Spanish and the "Conversos Problem" The Aftermath of the Pogroms Jewish
Mysticism: The Kabbalah in Spanish-Jewish Life Chapter Fifteen The
Expulsion of the Jews from Spain The Conquest of Granada Chapter Sixteen
The Enlightenment and the Jews The English Deists Varieties of
Enlightenment Views on Religion Voltaire Rousseau Rousseau on Judaism and
the Jews Chapter Seventeen The Germanies The Emerging German National Mind
Luther Luther's Attitude toward the Jews Hegel Hegel on Jews and Judaism
Chapter Eighteen The Left Hegelians and the "So-Called" Jewish Question
Bruno Bauer on the "Jewish Question" Marx Marx's Use of the Terms "Jew" and
"Judaism" Weber vs. Sombart on the Spirit of Capitalism Chapter
Nineteen From Religion to Race Afro-American ? Jewish Parallels Arthur de
Gobineau Chapter Twenty From Gobineau and H. Stewart Chamberlain to Wagner
Nietzsche, the Jews, and Judaism Nietzsche's Legacy Chapter Twenty One The
Rise of Nazism The Versailles Treaty The Origins of the Nazi Party After
the Putsch Chapter Twenty Two The Early Nazi Regime and the Jews as
Perceived by Non-Jewish Contemporaries Chapter Twenty Three The First World
War, the Collapse of the Old Regimes and the Rise of Totalitarianism More
on Nazi Ideology, Internal Factions and Foreign-Policy Aims The Turning
Point: The Attack on Poland Chapter Twenty Four Max Weber on Bureaucracy
and its Relevance for an Analysis of the Shoah (Holocaust) Bureaucracy
German Ideology and Bureaucracy Weber's Serious Error Chapter Twenty Five
Charisma, Bureaucracy and the "Final Solution" Raul Hilberg's, The
Destruction of the European Jews The Administration of the Destructive
Process The Reich-Protektorat Area The Creation of a Centralized authority
in Ghettoized Jewish Communities The Polish Jews under the Nazis The Jewish
Councils (Judenräte) Nazi Food Controls Mobile Killing Operations The Role
of the Other Ethnic Groups Definition of "Jew" Again, and Himmler Ian
Kershaw's Recent Re-Examination of the Issues Chapter Twenty Six Leon
Poliakov's Complementary Analysis of the Shoah Hitler's Euthanasia Program
Auschwitz The "Death's Head" Formations (SS Totenkopf) Back to the Question
of a Distinctive German National Character Significant Political
Differences Between Eastern and Western Europe The Role of the Christian
Churches Postscript Chapter Twenty Seven The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto A
Reflection on Jewish Resistance Chapter Twenty Eight Zionism, Israel and
the Palestinians Theodore Herzl The Historical Jewish Presence in the Arab
World The Peace Conference of 1919 "The Unseen Question" Arab Rebellion
Works Cited

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"Zeitlin successfully sums up extensive and detailed historical data while keeping them within a framework of the ideas he seeks to get across."
Insight Turkey

"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."
Norman Miller, Trinity College, Hartford

"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."
Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado at Boulder

"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."
Jacques Kornberg, University of Toronto