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Author Seltzer, Robert M., author.

Title Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews / by Robert M. Seltzer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; volume 21
Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 21. 1873-9008
Contents Breaking with the past, 1860-1886 -- Leaving the Shtetl -- Russian Jewry in the Reign of Alexander II -- Dubnow's "First World" -- The Vilna Haskalah and the beginning of Simon's rebellion -- From Haskalah to Positivism -- The search for a secular education -- The impact of radical Maskilim, Russian Nihilists, and their western exemplars -- Dubnow's self-image in his early twenties -- Young Dubnow as a Jewish positivist -- The Jewish press in nineteenth-century Russia -- The budding career of a Russian-Jewish critic -- Kritikus/Externus on the backwardness of Russian Jewry -- Reconsidering the past, 1886-1897 -- Coping with new realities -- Rejection -- In and out of an emotional crisis -- Discovering history -- Romantic positivism -- The influence of Renan and Graetz -- The influence of Lavrov and Mikhailovsky -- Historical Integratsia Dushi -- The exigencies of the present, 1897-1907 -- The historian becomes a nationalist -- Activism -- The Odessa circle -- Autonomism -- From the nineteenth to the twentieth century -- The letters on old and new Judaism -- On Dubnow's historiography -- From Vilna to St. Petersburg/Petrograd to Berlin to Riga -- Reconsiderations -- Are the Jews a nation? -- Defensive nationalism -- Dubnow, then and now -- Bibliography -- Dubnow's "Auto Bibliography" -- Index
Summary In Simon Dubnow's 'New Judaism', Seltzer traces a shtetl youth's rejection of traditional Judaism and the impact of European intellectual currents on the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his time (1860-1941) and exponent of Jewish cultural nationalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941.
Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941 -- Political activity
SUBJECT Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941 fast
Dubnov, Semen M. 1860-1941 gnd
Subject Jewish historians -- Russia -- Biography
Jews -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Jews -- Russia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- World.
Ethnic relations
Jewish historians
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
Political participation
SUBJECT Russia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Russia
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004260672
9004260676
Other Titles Diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews