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Informationen zum Autor Minna Rozen is Professor of History at Haifa University. A distinguished scholar who has also taught in the US and France! she has conducted research projects in Turkey! Romania! Russia! the Ukraine! France! Italy and England. Her previous publications include A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years 1453-1566! Haskoy Cemetery: Typology of Stones and The last Ottoman Century and Beyond: The Jews in Turkey and the Balkans 1808-1945. Klappentext The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. This work explores the similarities and differences between these two experiences. It examines Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history. It also offers a perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands. The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. This work explores the similarities and differences between these two experiences. It examines Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history. It also offers a perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands. Zusammenfassung The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. This work explores the similarities and differences between these two experiences. It examines Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history. It also offers a perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors – 11-15Remarks on the Method of Transliteration – 17-18Acknowledgements – 19-20Preface – 21-32Introduction: People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul (Minna Rozen) – 35-81Part 1: The Genesis of DiasporasChapter One: Exile – The Biblical Perspectives (Bustenay Oded) – 85-92Chapter Two: Between Greek Colony and Mother-City: Some Reflections (Panagiotis N. Doukellis) – 93-106 Part II: Pre-Modern Diaspora: Patterns of BehaviorChapter One: The Jewish Politeuma in Alexandria: A Pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (Aryeh Kasher) – 109-125Chapter Two: Collective Expatriations of Greeks in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Anastassia Papadia-Lala) – 127-133Part III: The Diaspora In Its Various GuisesA. The Greek Diaspora: Practical SolutionsChapter One: Reconstituting Community: Cultural Differentiation and Identity Politics in Christian Orthodox Communities during the Late Ottoman Era (Haris Exertzoglou) – 137-154Chapter Two: The ‘Old’ Diaspora, the ‘New’ Diaspora, and the Greek Diaspora in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Vienna (Vasiliki Seirinidou) – 155-159Chapter Three: Greek Diaspora in Southern Russia in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Vassilis Kardasis) – 161-167Chapter Four: Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal and Local Economic, Political, and Cultural Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Olga Katsiardi-Hering) – 169-180B. The Jewish Diaspora: Spiritual SolutionsChapter Five: A Land Adored Yet Feared: The Land of Israel in Jewish Tradition (Aviezer Ravitsky) – 183-210Chapter Six: Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The Yearning for the Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews (Shmuel Refael) – 211-223Part IV: The Modern World and Its DemiseChapter One: Breaks ad Continuities in German-Jewish Identity (Yfaat Weiss) – 227-234Chapter Two: The Metamorphosis of Pre-Dubnovian Autonomism into Diaspora Jewish Nationalism (Marcos Silber) – 235-255Chapter Three: Does Money Talk? The Struggle between American Zionists and the Yishuv in the Early 1940s (Zohar Segev) – 257-278Chapter Four: Greek Orthodox Church Networks in the Near East and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (1899-1947) (Sotirios Roussos) – 279-292Chapter Five: Center and Diaspora in the Struggle for ...
