Jews - The Making of a Diaspora People - The Making of a Diaspora People

Informationen zum Autor Irving M. Zeitlin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a leading authority on the sociology of religion. His many books include The Historical Muhammad , Jesus and the Judaism of His Time and Ancient Judaism . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung * A groundbreaking new study by a leading scholar on the history of the Jews and the process by which they became a diaspora people. * Wide-ranging in scope, from the expulsion of Jews from their ancestral homeland in the Ancient world to the 'Final Solution' and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One "Diaspora" on the Genealogy of a Concept The Relation of Theory to History and the Role of the Ideal Type Global Diasporas by Robin Cohen Ethnic Immigration in the Early Eras of American History Diasporas by Stéphane Dufux Static Thinking About Dispersion Powers of Diaspora by Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin The Socratic Inversion of Values The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy Children of Israel or Children of the Pharaohs Black Culture and Ineffable Terror Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford Chapter Two Varieties of Jewish Religious Experience Resting, however, on Unifying Jewish Religious Principles Moshe Rosman's Rethinking European Jewish History Cultures of the Jews Syncretism in Jewish History Polytheism and Monotheism The Nature of Polytheism Chapter Three Max Weber's Ancient Judaism The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting The Prophetic Ethic Chapter Four The Babylonian Empire The Revolt and the Destruction of the First Temple The Emigration to Egypt Chapter Five The Babylonian Exile and the Persian Supremacy (586-332BCE) The Diaspora in Babylon and Persia Chapter Six Alexander the Great and the new Hegemony of the West Chapter Seven The World Diaspora The Beginnings of the European Diaspora: Greece and Rome Chapter Eight The Diaspora in the 1st Century CE Judaism's Proselytism Chapter Nine The Jews in the Roman Near East Chapter Ten The Jews Move to Poland The Chmelnitzky Uprising of 1648-1649 Chapter Eleven Sabbatai Zevi Chapter Twelve Gershom Scholem...

List of contents

Preface
 
Chapter One
 
"Diaspora" on the Genealogy of a Concept
 
The Relation of Theory to History and the Role of the Ideal Type
 
Global Diasporas by Robin Cohen
 
Ethnic Immigration in the Early Eras of American History
 
Diasporas by Stéphane Dufux
 
Static Thinking About Dispersion
 
Powers of Diaspora by Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin
 
The Socratic Inversion of Values
 
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
 
Children of Israel or Children of the Pharaohs
 
Black Culture and Ineffable Terror
 
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford
 
Chapter Two
 
Varieties of Jewish Religious Experience
 
Resting, however, on Unifying Jewish Religious Principles
 
Moshe Rosman's Rethinking European Jewish History
 
Cultures of the Jews
 
Syncretism in Jewish History
 
Polytheism and Monotheism
 
The Nature of Polytheism
 
Chapter Three
 
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
 
The Hebrew Prophets: The Setting
 
The Prophetic Ethic
 
Chapter Four
 
The Babylonian Empire
 
The Revolt and the Destruction of the First Temple
 
The Emigration to Egypt
 
Chapter Five
 
The Babylonian Exile and the Persian Supremacy (586-332BCE)
 
The Diaspora in Babylon and Persia
 
Chapter Six
 
Alexander the Great and the new Hegemony of the West
 
Chapter Seven
 
The World Diaspora
 
The Beginnings of the European Diaspora: Greece and Rome
 
Chapter Eight
 
The Diaspora in the 1st Century CE
 
Judaism's Proselytism
 
Chapter Nine
 
The Jews in the Roman Near East
 
Chapter Ten
 
The Jews Move to Poland
 
The Chmelnitzky Uprising of 1648-1649
 
Chapter Eleven
 
Sabbatai Zevi
 
Chapter Twelve
 
Gershom Scholem's Error
 
Dubnow on the Sabbatian Movement
 
Chapter Thirteen
 
The Rise of Hasidism and the Baal-Shem-Tob
 
Enter the Man, Israel, Who Became the Baal-Shem-Tob (abbreviated the Besht)
 
The Fundamental Principles of the Besht's Teachings
 
The Growth of Tzaddikism
 
Hasidism, Rabbinism and the Forerunners of the Enlightenment
 
Chapter Fourteen
 
The Jews of Spain
 
The Inquisition
 
The Jews, the Spanish and the "Conversos Problem"
 
The Aftermath of the Pogroms
 
Jewish Mysticism: The Kabbalah in Spanish-Jewish Life
 
Chapter Fifteen
 
The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
 
The Conquest of Granada
 
Chapter Sixteen
 
The Enlightenment and the Jews
 
The English Deists
 
Varieties of Enlightenment Views on Religion
 
Voltaire
 
Rousseau
 
Rousseau on Judaism and the Jews
 
Chapter Seventeen
 
The Germanies
 
The Emerging German National Mind
 
Luther
 
Luther's Attitude toward the Jews
 
Hegel
 
Hegel on Jews and Judaism
 
Chapter Eighteen
 
The Left Hegelians and the "So-Called" Jewish Question
 
Bruno Bauer on the "Jewish Question"
 
Marx
 
Marx's Use of the Terms "Jew" and "Judaism"
 
Weber vs. Sombart on the Spirit of Capitalism
 
Chapter Nineteen
 
From Religion to Race
 
Afro-American ? Jewish Parallels
 
Arthur de Gobineau
 
Chapter Twenty
 
From Gobineau and H. Stewart Chamberlain to Wagner

Report

"Zeitlin successfully sums up extensive and detailed historical data while keeping them within a framework of the ideas he seeks to get across."
Insight Turkey
 
"Of Jewish histories there is no shortage. But this remarkable book offers history from the critical perspective of sociology - itself critically examined in the light of history. In short, an intellectual feast."
Norman Miller, Trinity College, Hartford
 
"This comprehensive study provides a profound discourse on the meanings and boundaries of 'Diaspora' as a central dimension of Jewish history. The author launches his historical tour of diverse Jewish religious, social, geographical, political and cultural communities with a probing "genealogy" of the very concept of Diaspora, including contemporary theories."
Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado at Boulder
 
"A prominent sociologist employs the concepts of his discipline to write diaspora Jewish history, as the story of national-religious Jewish peoplehood. Zeitlin shows that separate accounts of Jews living in different nations often miss the real connections in Jewish history."
Jacques Kornberg, University of Toronto

Product details

• Authors: Im Zeitlin, Irving M Zeitlin, Irving M. Zeitlin
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2012
• EAN: 9780745660165
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-6016-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Religionswissenschaft, Juden, Religious Studies, RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, General and world history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religion & Theology, Religion u. Theologie, history, Jewish studies, Judaism, diaspora studies