Jewish Peoplehood

Jewish Peoplehood
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9780813563664
ISBN-13 : 0813563666
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Jewish Peoplehood by : Noam Pianko

Winner of the 2017 American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko highlights the current significance and future relevance of “peoplehood” by tracing the rise, transformation, and return of this novel term. The book tells the surprising story of peoplehood. Though it evokes a sense of timelessness, the term actually emerged in the United States in the 1930s, where it was introduced by American Jewish leaders, most notably Rabbi Stephen Wise and Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, with close ties to the Zionist movement. It engendered a sense of unity that transcended religious differences, cultural practices, geographic distance, economic disparity, and political divides, fostering solidarity with other Jews facing common existential threats, including the Holocaust, and establishing a closer connection to the Jewish homeland. But today, Pianko points out, as globalization erodes the dominance of nationalism in shaping collective identity, Jewish peoplehood risks becoming an outdated paradigm. He explains why popular models of peoplehood fail to address emerging conceptions of ethnicity, nationalism, and race, and he concludes with a much-needed roadmap for a radical reconfiguration of Jewish collectivity in an increasingly global era. Innovative and provocative, Jewish Peoplehood provides fascinating insight into a term that assumes an increasingly important position at the heart of American Jewish and Israeli life. For additional information go to: http://www.noampianko.net

The Case for Jewish Peoplehood

The Case for Jewish Peoplehood
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Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781580234016
ISBN-13 : 1580234011
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Case for Jewish Peoplehood by : Erica Brown

This clarion call to the Jewish community explores the purpose, possibilities, and limitations of peoplehood as a unifying concept of community for a people struggling profoundly with Jewish identity. It defines what peoplehood is--and is not--and explores both collective and personal Jewish identity and the natue of identity construction.

The Invention of the Jewish People

The Invention of the Jewish People
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781781683620
ISBN-13 : 178168362X
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invention of the Jewish People by : Shlomo Sand

A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.

Jews and Diaspora Nationalism

Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781611683622
ISBN-13 : 1611683629
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Jews and Diaspora Nationalism by : Simon Rabinovitch

An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

People of the Book

People of the Book
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : 0299150143
ISBN-13 : 9780299150143
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis People of the Book by : Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky

The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Romance literature, Slavic studies, art, women's studies, comparative literature, anthropology, Judaic studies, and philosophy.

Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations

Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9789004277076
ISBN-13 : 9004277072
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations by : Eliezer Ben-Rafael

In this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe and beyond as well as the spread of the Palestinian cause as a civil religion make Israel the world’s "Jew among nations.” This weighs heavily on community relations - despite Israel’s active presence in the diaspora. In this context, the contributions to this volume focus on Jewish peoplehood, religiosity and ethnicity, gender and generation, Israelophobia and world Jewry, and debate the perspectives that are most pertinent to confront the question: how far is the Jewish Commonwealth (Klal Yisrael) still an important code of Jewry today?

The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781844679461
ISBN-13 : 1844679462
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invention of the Land of Israel by : Shlomo Sand

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.

History Of The Jewish People Vol 1

History Of The Jewish People Vol 1
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9781135779993
ISBN-13 : 1135779996
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis History Of The Jewish People Vol 1 by : Charles Foster Kent

First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered, oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.

History of the Jewish People

History of the Jewish People
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Publisher : Mesorah Publications
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 089906454X
ISBN-13 : 9780899064543
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis History of the Jewish People by : Hersh Goldwurm

For the first time, Jewish history is presented according to authentic Jewish sources; well researched and clearly illustrated with photos, charts, and maps. Vol. I: The Second Temple Era: The era of the Second Commonwealth from the Destruction of the First Temple to the Destruction of the Second.

People of the Book

People of the Book
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1607012383
ISBN-13 : 9781607012382
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis People of the Book by : Rachel Swirsky

Collects twenty short stories of Jewish science fiction and fantasy from the 2000s, including Eliot Fintushel's "How the Little Rabbi Grew," Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan," Tamar Yellin's "Reuben," and others.