Glorious, Accursed Europe An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence - The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series
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This volume offers a fascinating look at the complex relationship between Jews and Europe during the past two hundred years, and how the European Jewish and non-Jewish intelligentsia interpreted the modern Jewish experience, primarily in Germany, Russia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Beginning with premodern European attitudes toward Jews, Reinharz and Shavit move quickly to "the glorious nineteenth century," a period in which Jewish dreams of true assimilation came up against modern antisemitism. Later chapters explore the fin-de-siècle "crisis of modernity"; the myth of the modern European Jew; expectations and fears in the interwar period; differences between European nations in their attitude toward Jews; the views of Zionists and early settlers of Palestine and Israel toward the Europe left behind; and views of contemporary Israeli intellectuals toward Europe, including its new Muslim population-the latest incarnation of the Jewish Question in Europe.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781584658436 |
Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
Imprint: | Brandeis University Press |
Pub date: | 12 Aug 2010 |
DEWEY: | 305.892404 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 301 |
Weight: | 606g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 26mm |