Comparing Jewish Societies

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University of Michigan Press, 1997 - 369 من الصفحات
Having unfolded in the diverse communities of the diaspora, Jewish experience lends itself almost effortlessly to comparative treatment. The contributors to this volume take up the challenge, examining Jewish societies from medieval to modern times, in Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, North Africa, India, China, and the Middle East.
The essays use the methodological strategies and theoretical insights of history, sociology, anthropology, and political science to explore such topics as Jewish and African nationalism; Arab and Jewish railway workers in British-ruled Palestine; East European Jewish immigrants in New York, London, and Paris; ritual murder trials in fin-de-siècle Central Europe; and Catholic and Jewish enlightenment movements.
Further, because of their comparative structure and method, these essays stimulate fresh questions about the larger societies in which Jews lived--their values, practices, and structures.
Comparing Jewish Societies will appeal to students and scholars at all levels who wish to break out of old frameworks to observe the Jews and their religion with a new, methodologically sophisticated eye.
Todd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan.
 

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Comparing Jewish Societies
1
A Comparative Analysis of PreModern Jewish Communities
23
A Comparison of Medieval Communities
61
German Jewrys Formative Age in Comparative Perspective
89
East European Jews in New York London and Paris
113
Comparative Aspects of the Ritual Murder Trial in Modern Central Europe
135
The Encounter between Bolivians and Central European Jewish Refugees
167
The Case of Zionist and African Elites
217
Arabs and Jews in BritishRuled Palestine
235
Comparing Israel and Northern Ireland
267
The Orthodox Kibbutzim
313
The Situational Analysis of Religious Change Revisited
343
Glossary
359
Contributors
361
Index
365
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Todd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan.

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