Judaism in a Changing World
Author | : Leo Jung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leo Jung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leo Jung |
Publisher | : Soncino PressLtd |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9780900689086 |
Author | : Leo Jung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Norman Lebrecht |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1982134232 |
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
Author | : Marc B. Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781904113607 |
"A consideration of how segments of Orthodox society rewrite the past by eliminating that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. This wide-ranging and original review of how this policy is applied in practice adds a new perspective to Jewish intellectual history and to the understanding of the contemporary Jewish world"--
Author | : Elisheva Carlebach |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030019000X |
A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the most profound changes to have occurred since antiquity." Organized by genre, this extensive yet accessible volume surveys Jewish cultural production and intellectual innovation during these dramatic years, particularly in literature, the visual and performing arts, and intellectual culture. The wide-ranging collection includes a diverse selection of sources created by Jews around the world, translated from a dozen languages. Representing a tumultuous time of changing borders, demographic shifts, and significant Jewish migration, this anthology explores the range of approaches of Jews, from welcoming to resistant, to the intertwining ideals of enlightenment and emancipation, "the very foundation of the Jewish experience in this period."
Author | : Leo Jung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raphael Shuchat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Jewish philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781936235681 |
Shuchat presents some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages and updates them to 21st-century thinking, making each issue relevant for the modern reader. This book offers a fresh intellectual outlook on the Jewish faith and contains a timely message for all religionists and thinkers.
Author | : Deborah Dash MOORE |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674041208 |
Through memoirs, oral histories, and letters, Deborah Dash Moore charts the lives of 15 young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands.
Author | : Joshua Teplitsky |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300234902 |
David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collection testifies to the myriad connections Jews maintained with each other across political borders, and the contacts between Christians and Jews that books facilitated. From contact with the great courts of European nobility to the poor of Jerusalem, his family ties brought him into networks of power, prestige, and opportunity that extended across Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Containing works of law and literature alongside prayer and poetry, his library served rabbinic scholars and communal leaders, introduced old books to new readers, and functioned as a unique source of personal authority that gained him fame throughout Jewish society and beyond. The story of his life and library brings together culture, commerce, and politics, all filtered through this extraordinary collection. Based on the careful reconstruction of an archive that is still visited by scholars today, Joshua Teplitsky's book offers a window into the social life of Jewish books in early modern Europe.--Publisher's website.