Essays in modern Jewish history
Subtitle: a tribute to Ben Halpern
By: edited by Frances Malino and Phyllis Cohen Albert.
Contributors: Albert, Phyllis Cohen.; Malino, Frances.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Rutherford [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Halpern, Ben.; Jews -- History -- 70-1789.; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945.; Zionism -- History.
Notes: "A Herzl Press publication."
Table of contents: title: Ben a personal appreciation / Marie Syrkin; title: Early modern Jewry: The socioeconomic background of the expulsion and readmission of the Venetian Jews, 1571-1573 / Benjamim Ravid. The Portuguese Jews of seventeenth century Amsterdam: cultural continuity and adaptation / Daniel M. Swetschinski, Frankism as a "cargo cult" and the Haskalah connection: myth, ideology, and the modernization of Jewish consciousness / Hillel Levine. Attitudes toward Jewish communal autonomy in prerevolutionary France / Frances Malino; title: Modern Jewry: Nonorthodox attitudes in nineteenth-century French Judaism / Phyllis Cohen Albert. The study of the Jewish intellectual: some methodological proposals / Paul R. Mendes-Flohr. Historical sociology and ideology: a prolegomenon to Yehezkel Kaufmann's Golah v'Nekhar / Laurence J. Silberstein. Flexibility as a political asset: B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Congress Movement, 1915-1918 / Isaac Neustadt-Noy; title: Zionism: Zion and Judenstaat: the significance of the "Uganda" controversy / Ehud Luz. The disturbing of Karl Marx: Ber Borochov's achievement / Sanford Ragins. Louis Lipsky: the early years of his Zionist career / Deborah Lipstadt. Chaim Weizmann as political strategist: the initial years, 1918-1920 / Jehuda Reinharz; title: The work of Ben Halpern: a tentative intellectual profile / Edward S. Goldstein. Annotated bibliography of published works / Edward S. Goldstein.