Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience

The Civilizational Dimension

AvShmuel N. Eisenstadt

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Del 3 i serien Jewish Identities in a Changing World

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Beskrivning

This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity.The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization – without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses. The core of the argument that underlies these essays is, that the best way to understand the Jewish experience is to look on Jews not just as a religious or ethnic group, nation or "people", although they have been all of these, but as bearers of a distinct civilization.These essays examine the historical experience of the Jewish people and communities in ancient medieval and modern times in the framework of such civilizational analysis in which special attention is given to the analysis of Israeli society and to the continual changing place of Israel in a central component of Jewish identity, in line with the different historical experience and collective agendas of the Jewish communities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-10
Mått:155 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:1 180 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004233294

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S.N. Eisenstadt, Ph.D. (1947), Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is member of many academies, recipient of honorary doctoral degrees of the Universities of Tel Aviv, Helsinki, Harvard, Duke and Hebrew Union College. Recipient of many prizes and awards, he is author of more than 50 books.

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Section I The Jewish Historical Experience in the Civilizational FrameworkCHAPTER ONE, The Format of Jewish History - Some Reflections on Weber’s Ancient JudaismCHAPTER TWO, The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal HistoryCHAPTER THREE, The Jewish Experience in the Modern EraSection II The Zionist Movement and Israeli StoryCHAPTER FOUR, Did Zionism Bring the Jews back to History?CHAPTER FIVE, Change and Continuity in Israeli SocietyCHAPTER SIX, The Mahapach of 1977 and the Transformation of Israeli SocietyCHAPTER SEVEN, Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological SocietyCHAPTER EIGHT, Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the CourtCHAPTER NINE, Two New Democracies, the U.S. and Israel: Some Comparative RemarksSection III The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era CHAPTER TEN, The American Jewish Experience and American Pluralism: A Comparative PerspectiveCHAPTER ELEVEN, Patterns of Contemporary Jewish IdentityCHAPTER TWELVE, The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era: Some Concluding Observations