Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Shanes is Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. His past awards include the Jacob Javits Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship and awards from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was also a fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry. He has published widely on Jewish cultural and political history in such journals as Jewish Social Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Polin, the Austrian History Yearbook and the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Klappentext Explains the construction of the Jewish nation in Galicia, the process by which traditional Jews modernized and the variety of identities they adopted. Zusammenfassung This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. The book challenges the still-dominant Zionist narrative by demonstrating that Jewish nationalism was a part of the rising nationalist movements in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Galician Jewry under Habsburg rule: the first century, 1772-1883; 2. Neither Germans nor Poles: Jewish nationalism before Herzl, 1883-96; 3. Building a nation of readers: the emergence of a Yiddish populist press in Galicia; 4. A broadening audience: organizational and ideological change, 1896-1904; 5. The 1907 parliamentary elections and the rise of Jewish mass politics.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Shanes, Joshua (College of Charleston Shanes, Shanes Joshua
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107014244
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01424-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Social History, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Judaism, Social and cultural history, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities