Forging Modern Jewish Identities by Michael Berkowitz

Forging Modern Jewish Identities by Michael Berkowitz

Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an aspect of popular culture. This volume is distinctive, and it can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as having potential as a teaching tool, as the experience of Jewry in the United States, Britain, Central and Western Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union is addressed by experts in each of these fields. Its introduction places the volume within the burgeoning genre of anthologies that constitutes a significant - but little noticed - development in Jewish and ethnic-national historiography. Cutting across disciplinary and national boundaries, the articles highlight Jewry's encounter with modernity from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. While acknowledging the power of acculturation, each of the contributions details how Jews transformed themselves, individually and communally, while reshaping notions of Jewish community and what it means to be a Jew in the modern world.

Berkowitz, Michael: - MICHAEL BERKOWITZ is a Reader in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London.

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ISBN 13	9780853034544
ISBN 10	0853034540
Title	Forging Modern Jewish Identities
Author	Susan Tananbaum
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Year published	2003-04-30
Number of pages	293
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