The Jewish past revisited : reflections on modern Jewish historians / edited by David N. Myers and D...
The Jewish past revisited : reflections on modern Jewish historians / edited by David N. Myers and D...
The Jewish past revisited : reflections on modern Jewish historians / edited by David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman.
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Publisher
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1998.
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N909.04924/56
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 244 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Jacob Bernays, Joseph Scaliger, and others / Anthony Grafton -- Subversive catalysts / Moshe Idel -- Yitzhak Baer and the search for authentic Judaism / Israel Jacob Yuval -- Between Diaspora and Zion / David N. Myers -- Narratives of nation building / Derek J. Penslar -- Cecil Roth, historian of It...
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1998.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
In this new collection of essays, contemporary historians examine the ways earlier historians have framed, written, and "made" the Jewish past. Probing the ideology and methodology of their professional predecessors, American and Israeli historians offer new perspectives on some of the central figures of twentieth-century Jewish historiography, inc...
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Full title
The Jewish past revisited : reflections on modern Jewish historians / edited by David N. Myers and David B. Ruderman.
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General note
Studies in Jewish culture and society.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
c1998.
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N909.04924/56
Record Identifier
74Vvr6ELbEN3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvr6ELbEN3
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ISBN
0300072163 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300072167 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
909.049240072
MMS ID
991011251929702626
