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The Brill Reference Library of Judaism |
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Brill reference library of Judaism.
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| Subject |
Seltzer, Robert M.
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Judaism -- History.
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Jews -- History.
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Jews -- Europe, Eastern.
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Jews -- United States -- Identity.
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Judaism -- United States.
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| Alt Name |
Smollett, Brian M.,
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Wiese, Christian, 1961-
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| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Robert M. Seltzer: Scholar and Teacher; Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period; Part 1 Jewish Life and Modern Questions in Russia and Eastern Europe; Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów; Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation; Saul Borovoi's Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times. |
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Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk LegitimacyPart 2 Jewish Thought and Questions of Identity; Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage; Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica; Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550-1700; From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger; Kaplan and Personality; How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus. |
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Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin's ThoughtMartin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn; The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn; Part 3 Jewish Religion and Politics in America; How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools; Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry. |
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An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930s Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century; "We Must Build Anew": Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion; A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges; Writings of Robert M. Seltzer; Index. |
| Summary |
Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience provides a variety of new perspectives on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present. |
| Note |
English. |
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Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9789004284661 (electronic bk.) |
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9004284664 (electronic bk.) |
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1322436525 |
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9781322436524 |
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9789004284630 |
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900428463X |
| OCLC # |
895256883 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Reappraisals and new studies of the modern Jewish experience 9789004284630 (DLC) 2014032776 (OCoLC)888401390 |
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