Jews and diaspora nationalism
Subtitle: writings on Jewish peoplehood in Europe and the United States
By: edited by Simon Rabinovitch
Series: The Tauber institute series for the study of European Jewry; The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584657613; 9781584657620; 9781611683622
Subjects: Judaism and politics; Zionism; Jews; Socialism and Judaism; History; Identity; Jewish nationalism
Description: The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the vitality of Jewish existence in the diaspora, the key works have never been collected in a single volume, and few reliable English translations exist. This anthology brings together a variety of thinkers who offered competing visions of peoplehood within the established and developing Jewish diaspora centers of Europe and America. Writing in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and English, these Jewish intellectuals sought to recast Jewish existence, whether within multiethnic empires, liberal democracies, or socialist forms of government, in national terms. Volume editor Simon Rabinovitch provides an introductory essay, as well as short introductions and annotations to each document that contextualize and make accessible this wealth of primary sources for scholars and students. -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1 From Haskala to national renaissance; title: pt. 2. Socialism and the question of Jewish peoplehood; title: pt. 3 Preservation and reconstruction in the republics.