| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) |
| Contents |
"Diaspora": on the genealogy of a concept -- Varieties of Jewish religious experience (resting, however, on unifying Jewish religious principles) -- Max Weber's ancient Judaism -- The Babylonian Empire -- The Babylonian exile and the Persian supremacy (586-332 BCE) -- Alexander the Great and the new hegemony of the West -- The world diaspora -- The diaspora in the first century CE -- The Jews in the Roman Near East -- The Jews move to Poland -- Sabbatai Zevi -- Gershom Scholem's error -- The rise of Hasidism and the Baal-Shem-Tob -- The Jews of Spain -- The expulsion of the Jews from Spain -- The Enlightenment and the Jews -- The Germanies -- The Left Hegelians and the so-called "Jewish question" -- From religion to race -- From Gobineau and H. Stewart Chamberlain to Wagner -- The rise of Nazism -- The early Nazi regime and the Jews as perceived by non-Jewish contemporaries -- World War I, the collapse of the old regimes, and the rise of totalitarianism -- Max Weber on bureaucracy and its relevance for an analysis of the Shoah (Holocaust) -- Charisma, bureaucracy, and the "final solution" -- Leon Poliakov's complementary analysis of the Shoah -- The battle of the Warsaw ghetto -- Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians |
| Summary |
Traces the history of the Jewish diaspora from the ancient world to the present, beginning with expulsion from their ancestral homeland and concluding with the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-280) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jewish diaspora -- History
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Judaism -- History.
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Jews -- Social conditions.
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Jewish diaspora
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Judaism
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Judar -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0745676022 |
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9780745676029 |
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0745661483 |
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9780745661483 |
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