(Ebook) Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience Essays in Honor of Robert Seltzer 1st Edition by Brian Smollett, Christian Wiese ISBN 978-9004284630 900428463X

(Ebook) Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience Essays in Honor of Robert Seltzer 1st Edition by Brian Smollett, Christian Wiese ISBN 978-9004284630 900428463X

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ISBN 10:  900428463X

ISBN 13:  978-9004284630

Author:  Brian Smollett, Christian Wiese

Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present in the contexts of Russia, Western and Central Europe, and the Americas.

Table of contents: 

1. Acknowledgements

2. List of Contributors

3. Robert M. Seltzer: Scholar and Teacher — Brian M. Smollett

4. Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period — Christian Wiese

Part 1: Jewish Life and Modern Questions in Russia and Eastern Europe

5. Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów — Gershon David Hundert

6. Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation — William Cutter

7. Saul Borovoi's Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times — Brian Horowitz

8. Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk Legitimacy — Elissa Bemporad

Part 2: Jewish Thought and Questions of Identity

9. Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage — Jane S. Gerber

10. Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica — Stanley Mirvis

11. Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550–1700 — David Sorkin

12. From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger — Michael A. Meyer

13. Kaplan and Personality — Mel Scult

14. How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. — Zach Mann

15. Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin's Thought — Arie M. Dubnov

16. Martin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists: Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn — Christian Wiese

17. The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn — Brian M. Smollett

Part 3: Jewish Religion and Politics in America

18. How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools — Stephan F. Brumberg

19. Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry — Bruce L. Ruben

20. An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930s — Naomi W. Cohen

21. Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century — Mark A. Raider

22. "We Must Build Anew": Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion — Shirley Idelson

23. A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges — Sanford Ragins

24. Writings of Robert M. Seltzer — Roberta S. Newman

25. Index

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