This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews’ choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought.
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The editors [ of History, Memory, and Jewish Identity] sought to and succeeded in bringing together important studies demonstrating how the past has been a source of memory and a means to shape identity in various contexts. ... This volume presents a welcome contribution to an ongoing debate about the relationship between history and memory and the ways the past shapes present mentalities and future prospects. * Canadian Jewish Studies *
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The Causes of the Alexandrian Pogrom and the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in 38 CE |
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Sectarianism in the Mishnah: Memory, Modeling Society, and Rabbinic Identity |
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Power and the (Re)Creation of Collective-Cultural Memory in Early Judaism: The Case of the Mishnah |
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Medieval and Early Modern Periods |
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Maimonides vs. Nahmanides on Historical Consciousness and the Shaping of Jewish Identity |
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Community and Sacrality: Jewish Customs and Identity in Early Modern Worms |
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Criticism and Tradition: Leon Modena, Azariah de' Rossi, and Elijah Levita Bahur on Kabbalah and the Hebrew Vowels |
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Modern and Contemporary Periods |
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American Jewish Immigrants and the Invention of Europe |
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North American Hasidim: Between Modernity and the Old World |
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The Challenge of Memory for Yiddish Language Activists in Montreal |
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Identities, Communities, and the Infrastructures of History: Creating Canadian Jewish Archives in the 1930s and 1970s |
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The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar Without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close |
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Macro and Micro Insights into Contemporary Jewish Identities: Europe, Israel, and the United States |
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294 | (22) |
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Rallying All of Israel: David Ben-Gurion and the Book of Joshua |
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316 | (21) |
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Who Is a Marrano?: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity |
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| The Authors |
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Ira Robinson is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, Canada. He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and was the 2013 winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. Naftali S. Cohn is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Canada. His book, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis, was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His next book, The Architecture of Apocalypticism, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
