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Jacob & Esau - Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire (Paperback)
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Jacob & Esau - Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire (Paperback)
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Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish
European history that, for the first time, integrates the
cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of
traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the
biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its
subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as
a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian
relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish
life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people
accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming
relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but
eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and
experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In
rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two
divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent
the plurality of Jewish European cultures.
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