This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a
diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively
to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in
scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the time of the
Babylonian exile; it has come to express the characteristic
uniqueness of the Jewish historical experience. Zeitlin retraces
the history of the Jewish diaspora from the ancient world to the
present, beginning with expulsion from their ancestral homeland and
concluding with the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In mapping this process, Zeitlin argues that the Jews' religious
self-understanding was crucial in enabling them to cope with the
serious and recurring challenges they have had to face throughout
their history. He analyses the varied reactions the Jews
encountered from their so-called 'host peoples', paying special
attention to the attitudes of famous thinkers such as Luther,
Hegel, Nietzsche, Wagner, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, the Left
Hegelians, Marx and others, who didn't shy away from making
explicit their opinions of the Jews.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish
studies, diaspora studies, history and religion, as well as to
general readers keen to learn more about the history of the Jewish
experience.
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