Prophets of the past
Subtitle: interpreters of Jewish history
By: Michael Brenner ; Translated by Steven Rendall.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691139289
Subjects: Jews -- Historiography; Jewish historians; Judaism -- Historiography; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945
Work titles: Propheten des Vergangenen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish history as history of religion: Wissenschaft des Judentums in the service of Reform and emancipation; title: Between religion and nation: Graetz and his construction of Jewish history; title: The nationalization of Jewish history: the view from the East; title: Jewish history without tears? new perspectives in the West; title: The return of the nation to its land: Zionist narrative perspectives; title: Postmodern influences: a new subjectivity.