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In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern
world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the
territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian
coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition
of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian
and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first
large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition
in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between,
a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would
be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures,
yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The
Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation
and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.
Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented
transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global
capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular
self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes
collapsed around the world, migration and imperialism remade the
lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed
selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social
conflict threatened as never before. Few communities experienced
the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the
world’s Jews. This volume, seventh in The Posen Library of Jewish
Culture and Civilization, recaptures the vibrant Jewish cultural
creativity, political striving, social experimentation, and
fractious religious and secular thought that burst forth in the
face of these challenges. Editors Israel Bartal and Kenneth
B. Moss capture the full range of Jewish expression in a
centrifugal age—from mystical visions to unabashedly
antitraditional Jewish political thought, from cookbooks to
literary criticism, from modernist poetry to vaudeville. They also
highlight the most remarkable dimension of the 1880–1918 era: an
audacious effort by newly secular Jews to replace Judaism itself
with a new kind of Jewish culture centering on this-worldly,
aesthetic creativity by a posited “Jewish nation” and the
secular, modern, and “free” individuals who composed it. This
volume is an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to
understand the divided Jewish present.
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Colonialism and the Jews (Paperback)
Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel; Contributions by Colette Zytnicki, Daniel J. Schroeter, …
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture,
and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the
Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange,
diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the
volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the
challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on
the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged
with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal
the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a
rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of
postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A
provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also
included.
'The less antisemitism exists among Christians, the easier it will
be to unite the social forces . . . and the sooner workers'
solidarity will emerge: solidarity of all who are exploited and
wronged . . . Jew, Pole, Lithuanian.' Jozef Pilsudski, 1903 The
Socialist ideals of brotherhood, equality, and justice have
exercised a strong attraction for many Jews. On the Polish lands,
Jews were drawn to Socialism when the liberal promise of
integration into the emergent national entities of east and central
Europe as Poles or Lithuanians or Russians of the Hebrew faith
seemed to be failing. For those Jews seeking emancipation from
discrimination and the constraints of a religious community,
Socialism offered a tantalizing new route to integration in the
wider society. Some Jews saw in Socialism a secularized version of
the age-old Jewish messianic longing, while others were driven to
the Socialist movement by poverty and the hope that it would supply
their material needs. But in Poland as elsewhere in Europe,
Socialism failed to transcend national divisions. The articles in
this volume of Polin investigate the failure of this ideal and its
consequences for Jews on the Polish lands, examining Socialist
attitudes to the 'Jewish question', the issue of antisemitism, how
the growth of Socialism affected relationships between Poles and
Jews, and the character of Jewish Socialist groups in Poland. The
result is a significant contribution to the history of Jews in
Poland. It also sheds light on the history of Socialism in
east-central Europe and the complexity of national problems there.
Editors and contributors: Israel Bartal, Daniel Blatman, Alina
Cala, Stephen D. Corrsin, David Engel, Sylvia Barack Fishman,
Gershon Hundert, Ross Kessel, Shmuel Krakowski, Dov Levin, Pawel
Machcewicz, Stanislaw Meducki, Erica Nadelhaft, Magdalena Opalska,
Richard Pipes, Antony Polonsky, Dina Porat, Teresa Prekerowa,
Michal Sliwa, Janusz Sujecki, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Barbara Wachowska.
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Colonialism and the Jews (Hardcover)
Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel; Contributions by Colette Zytnicki, Daniel J. Schroeter, …
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R2,159
Discovery Miles 21 590
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture,
and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the
Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange,
diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the
volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the
challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on
the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged
with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal
the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a
rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of
postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A
provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also
included.
Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the
anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were
at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating
newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking
essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel
investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and
transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence
was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia
s early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine,
Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia."
In the period between 1772 and 1881, the majority of Jews lived in
hundreds of small towns and villages in the area between the Baltic
and Black Seas. With the rise of late absolutism, an epoch of
profound transformation began. It led to the dissolution of
traditional Jewish autonomy and a forced integration into the
non-Jewish environment, combined with the awakening of a national
Jewish self-image. This phase ends with the outbreak of Russian
pogroms and anti-Semitic legislation in the tsarist empire. Israel
Bartal investigates this transformation of a traditional community
and discovers in it the origins of Jewish modernity.
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