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Conflicted Disciples: Graetz Through the Eyes of Dubnow, Baron, and Scholem
This essay analyses the twentieth century reception of the German-Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz. Specifically, it traces the ways in which three...
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Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the “Golden Era”
The defeat of the Labour Party in the 2019 general election in Britain has put to rest the tumultuous “Corbyn Affair” (2015–2019). Whether Labour...
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Introduction
The introduction poses the issues examined in the book, namely: (1) Why did Russian generals and soldiers, unlike their European colleagues, consider...
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Einführung
In der Einführung gibt der Autor einen kurzen Überblick über die Geschichte des deutschen Buddhismus und wie der Buddhismus in der deutschen...
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Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions
In this chapter I retrace the historical “othering” of the Jews through a discussion of the semantic changes in antisemitic discourse centered on the...
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Major Trends in the Historiography of European Ashkenazic Jews from the 1970s to the Present
This article focuses on shifts in Jewish historiography of Ashkenazic Jews in Europe of the pre-modern period. It describes the denouement of...
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Conclusion
The conclusion sums up the issues discussed in the book. The hostile attitude of the military command and of Russian soldiers is explained in the...
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Ghetto
This chapter elucidates and assesses different scholarly perspectives on the relationship between the mandatory and exclusive ghetto in Jewish...
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‘The Greatest Pogrom in World History’: Hugo Valentin and the Holocaust
Hugo Valentin was a historian, a Zionist and a public intellectual who informed the Swedish public about the Jewish genocide. In so doing, Valentin...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter explains the origins of the volume as an attempt to address some of the challenges facing instructors teaching...
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Postcolonialism
This chapter distinguishes different strands within (post)colonialism since the immediate postwar. It accounts for the varying disciplinary...
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The Importance of Agriculture in Medieval Jewish Life: The Case of Crete
This article describes how Jews in medieval Crete were involved in, and knowledgeable about, agricultural practices. It pushes back against a...
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In Search of Documentation: Nella Rost and the Jewish Historical Commission in Stockholm
This study outlines the activities of Nella Rost and her Jewish historical commission in Stockholm (1946–1951) and shows the challenges and...
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1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution
This chapter argues that the presence of Jewish politicians in positions of public authority during the revolutions of 1848 cemented the synergy...
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Where to Turn? How One Italian Rabbi Understood Ashkenaz, ca. 1600
This study focuses on a member of the secondary rabbinic elite in northern Italy around the year 1600, Rabbi Jacob Heilbronn (d. 1625). Based on an...
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Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of “Sepharad” to Spanish liberals and their Jewish interlocutors in debates over religious tolerance, from...
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When the Rabbi’s Soul Entered a Pig: Melchiorre Palontrotti and His Giudiata against the Jews of Rome
This essay analyzes an unpublished manuscript of a giudiata , a poem mocking Jewish funerals that was written and performed in Rome in the...
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From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia
This paper focuses on the story of two Jewish men who were convicted of theft and executed in Prostějov, Moravia, in the spring of 1684. Although the...
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Jewish Communal History in Geniza Scholarship: Part 1, From Early Beginnings to Goitein’s Magnum Opus
Jewish communal organization has always been a major topic in Jewish historiography, not only because of its importance in the past, but also because...