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A sophisticated contribution to debates in both the academic and
the public realms regarding the nature of antisemitism today.
 This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and
challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools
for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together over
twenty essays by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the
United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions
regarding the nature and meaning of Jewish history and the history
of relations between Jews and non-Jews. The book begins with a
revised and updated version of David Engel’s seminal essay
“Away from a Definition of Antisemitism.” Subsequent
contributions by renowned specialists in ancient, medieval, and
modern history, religious studies, and other fields explore the
various and changing definitions and uses of the term
“antisemitism” in a range of contexts, including ancient Rome
and Greece, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Europe, early modern and
modern Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The volume
also includes a section that focuses on the Second World War,
including the Holocaust and its memory. Engel offers a contemporary
response to conclude the book. Â First published in Hebrew in
2020 as a special issue of the journal Zion: A Quarterly for
Research in Jewish History in cooperation with the Zalman Shazar
Center in Jerusalem, this compelling collection has already had an
impact on the study of antisemitism in Israel. It is certain to
become a critical resource for scholars, policymakers, and
journalists researching antisemitism, Holocaust studies, and
related fields.
A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences
of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. Â In
Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social
exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later,
forced evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever
changed German Jews’ experience of space and time. Facing
ever-mounting restrictions, German Jews reimagined their
worlds—devising new relationships to traditional and personal
space, new interpretations of their histories, and even new
calendars to measure their days. For Miron, these tactics reveal a
Jewish community’s attachment to German bourgeois life as well as
their defiant resilience under Nazi persecution.
From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des
Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a
vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these
scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined
pioneers of Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth and twentieth
Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and
historiographical research, German Wissenschaft des Judentums had a
seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural
memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular
character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in
German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French,
Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an
exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual
understanding and respect. The present volume is based on papers
delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in
Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The
papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and
methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a
tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des
Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish
self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural
discourse.
A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences
of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. Â In
Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social
exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later,
forced evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever
changed German Jews’ experience of space and time. Facing
ever-mounting restrictions, German Jews reimagined their
worlds—devising new relationships to traditional and personal
space, new interpretations of their histories, and even new
calendars to measure their days. For Miron, these tactics reveal a
Jewish community’s attachment to German bourgeois life as well as
their defiant resilience under Nazi persecution.
A sophisticated contribution to debates in both the academic and
the public realms regarding the nature of antisemitism today.
 This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and
challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools
for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together over
twenty essays by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the
United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions
regarding the nature and meaning of Jewish history and the history
of relations between Jews and non-Jews. The book begins with a
revised and updated version of David Engel’s seminal essay
“Away from a Definition of Antisemitism.” Subsequent
contributions by renowned specialists in ancient, medieval, and
modern history, religious studies, and other fields explore the
various and changing definitions and uses of the term
“antisemitism” in a range of contexts, including ancient Rome
and Greece, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Europe, early modern and
modern Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The volume
also includes a section that focuses on the Second World War,
including the Holocaust and its memory. Engel offers a contemporary
response to conclude the book. Â First published in Hebrew in
2020 as a special issue of the journal Zion: A Quarterly for
Research in Jewish History in cooperation with the Zalman Shazar
Center in Jerusalem, this compelling collection has already had an
impact on the study of antisemitism in Israel. It is certain to
become a critical resource for scholars, policymakers, and
journalists researching antisemitism, Holocaust studies, and
related fields.
With the rise of Fascism in Europe, and particularly the ascent of
Germany's Nazi Party, Jews in Germany and eastern and western
Europe were forced to cope with an eroding civil and social status,
increasing daily limitations, and a dark future on the horizon.
This reality looked very different from the recent past of
emancipation, in which Jewish citizens had enjoyed civic equality
and the advance of social integration. In The Waning of
Emancipation: Jewish History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in
Germany, France, and Hungary, author Guy Miron examines how Jewish
spokespeople from three European communities--Germany, France, and
Hungary--confronted these challenges, and whether they coped by
holding onto historical perceptions that materialized during the
emancipation era or by adopting new views. Miron demonstrates that
pre-Holocaust Germany, France, and Hungary make interesting case
studies because of the divergence of the starting points for
emancipation in each country, their unique and complex political
cultures both during the golden age of emancipation and after its
decline, and the distinct relationship each held between church and
state. In three sections, Miron considers the three countries in
turn, with two chapters devoted to how each community came to terms
with the crisis in relation to its internal diversity and political
divisions. To analyze the evolving Jewish public discourse in each
country, Miron consults numerous primary sources, including
articles and essays that appeared in Jewish journals and
periodicals as well as literature, mostly popular, published by
Jewish publishing houses. Along the way, Miron addresses wider
questions of Jewish identity and self-consciousness and the
cultural memory of Jewish emancipation during the rise of Fascism.
Miron's examination of the range of Jewish responses to the waning
of emancipation will contribute to the discourse on politics of
representation of the past in each of the three countries and also
draw attention to the internal diversity and political divisions
within each. Scholars of Jewish and European history will benefit
from the careful research in this volume.
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