Seltzer: Modern Jewish History 1914-1945

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
DiMarkco Stephen Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern Jewish History

Jewish Representation in the Independent Ukrainian Governments of 1917-1920

Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Linguistic Barriers ◽  
Modern Jewish History

The experience of Ukrainian Jewry from 1917 to 1920 is a paradox in modern Jewish history. At the same moment that the leaders of the Ukrainian revolutionary movement extended unprecedented civil rights to Ukrainian Jews, pogromists operating in the name of that same movement brutally terrorized hundreds of Jewish communities with violence and robbery. This strange incongruity has not been satisfactorily addressed; studies of the period have either concentrated on the pogroms or focused on Jewish socialists in Ukrainian politics. Linguistic barriers and subsequent developments, notably the 1926 assassination of Symon Petliura, have further polarized an already dichotomous history. This article attempts to synthesize these two trends.

On Modern Jewish History

1959 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
B. Weinryb ◽  
Howard M. Sachar
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern Jewish History

scholarly journals Early Modern Jewish History

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Ruderman ◽  
Francesca Bregoli
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
Bibliographical Survey

The term “early modernity” as the name of a period roughly extending from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century has been only recently employed by historians of Jewish culture and society. Despite a plethora of new studies in the last several decades, few attempts have been made to define the period as a whole as a distinct epoch in Jewish history, distinguishable from both the medieval and the modern periods. Some historians have remained indifferent to demarcating the period, have simply designated it as an extension of the Middle Ages, or have labeled it vaguely as a mere transitional stage between medievalism and modernity without properly describing its distinguishing characteristics. A few historians have used the term “Renaissance” to apply to the cultural ambiance of Jews living in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries alone without delineating the larger period and the more comprehensive geographical area. The bibliographical survey that follows focuses on the entire period of three hundred years and attempts to provide a panoramic view of European and Ottoman Jewries both as distinct subcommunities and in their broader connections with each other.

Ten Theses on Emancipation

2019 ◽  
pp. 354-356
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This concluding chapter presents ten theses on emancipation. One, emancipation is the principal event of modern Jewish history. Two, the term “emancipation” was historically polysemous: it referred to the liberation or elevation of numerous groups. Three, the emancipation process commenced around 1550 when Jews began to receive extensive privileges in eastern and western Europe and in some instances rights in a nascent civil society. Four, there were two legislative models of emancipation: conditional and unconditional. Five, there were three regions of emancipation: western, central, and eastern Europe. Six, the Ottoman Empire comprised a fourth region of emancipation. Seven, the equality of Judaism was fundamental to the Jews' equality. Eight, emancipation mobilized Jews politically. Nine, emancipation was ambiguous and interminable. Ten, emancipation was at the heart of the twentieth century's colossal events.

Spinoza’s Jewish Modernities

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
Great Culture

This introductory chapter considers why the hallmark of modern Jewish identity is its resistance to—and, at the same time, obsession with—definition. Like battles over national identity in the modern state, clashes over the nature and limits of Jewishness have frequently taken the shape of controversies over the status—and stature—of marginal Jews past and present. The Jewish rehabilitation of historical heretics and apostates with a vexed relationship to Judaism has become so much a part of contemporary discourse that it is difficult to imagine secular Jewish culture without it. Yet this tendency has a beginning as well as a template in modern Jewish history, which the chapter introduces in the figure of Baruch (or Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677)—“the first great culture-hero of modern secular Jews,” and still the most oft-mentioned candidate for the title of first modern secular Jew.

A Radical Transformation?

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Rotem Giladi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
Post War ◽  
Radical Transformation

The Introduction notes the tendency of international law and Jewish history scholars to read the international law engagement of Jewish scholars as a cosmopolitan project yet limit inquiry to the period preceding Israel’s establishment and the ‘sovereign turn’ in modern Jewish history; as well as the emphasis, in scholarship on Israel’s foreign policy, on the ‘Jewish aspect’ of the Jewish state’s international outlook. Against this backdrop, the Introduction presents the object, scope, and underlying argument of the book: a study of Israel’s early ambivalence towards three post-war international law reform projects, at the United Nations arena, given voice by two Ministry of Foreign Affairs legal advisers. The Introduction points to ideology as the force driving the protagonists’ ambivalence towards international law. It argues that how Jacob Robinson and Shabtai Rosenne approached international law was determined by pre-sovereign sensibilities expressing the creed of the Jewish national movement and its political experience.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Anna Hájková
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Claim

The introduction outlines the objectives of the book and contextualizes it in terms of existing Holocaust studies scholarship in general and Theresienstadt in particular. It offers a brief chronology of the ghetto and explains why it was a ghetto and not a concentration camp. It also relates the work to issues pertinent to modern Jewish history, the history of everyday life, and research on ethnicity and Central Europe. Specifically, it shows how ethnicity became the central category of difference in the prisoner society, one directly linked to stratification. This introduction also lays out the central claim of the book that social interaction continues under extreme circumstances and brings Holocaust and Jewish history into the wider context of modern history. It also discusses forms of prisoners’ agency in the everyday of the ghetto.

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