Description: Further DetailsTitle: How Jewish is Jewish History?Condition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/01/2008EAN: 9781904113850ISBN: 9781904113850Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationDescription: With great vigour and from the vantage point of long experience of writing and teaching Jewish history, Moshe Rosman treats the key questions that postmodernism raises for the writing of Jewish history. What is the relationship between Jewish culture and history and those of the non-Jews among whom Jews live? Can we-in the light of postmodernist thought-speak of a continuous, coherent Jewish People, with a distinct culture and history? What in fact is Jewish cultural history, and how can it be written? How does gender transform the Jewish historical narrative? How does Jewish history fit into the multicultural paradigm? Has Jewish history entered a postmodern phase? How can Jewish history utilize the methodologies of other disciplines to accomplish its task? All these are questions that Jewish historians need to think about if their work is to be taken seriously by mainstream historians and intellectuals, or indeed by educated Jews interested in understanding their own cultural and historical past. While engaging with the questions raised by postmodernists, the author adopts a critical stance towards their work.His basic claim is that it is possible to incorporate, judiciously, postmodern innovations into historical scholarship that is still based on documentary research and critical analysis. The resulting endeavor might be termed 'a reformed positivism'. Rosman presents a concentrated, coherent, cogent argument as to what considerations must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history today. By highlighting in one book the issues raised by postmodernism, How Jewish is Jewish History? provides those in the field with a foundation from which to discuss how it should be practiced in light of this generation's challenges. It is a valuable resource for students of Jewish history and historiography and a handy tool for scholars who must confront the issues aired here in their own more narrowly focused scholarly works.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Moshe RosmanGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureBook Series: Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationISBN-10: 1904113850Type: Religious Groups StudiesRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: How Jewish is Jewish History?
Title: How Jewish is Jewish History?
Release Date: 10/01/2008
Release Year: 2008
EAN: 9781904113850
ISBN: 9781904113850
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
ISBN-10: 1904113850
Type: Religious Groups Studies
Book Title: How Jewish Is Jewish History?
Number of Pages: 234 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Littmann Library of Jewish Civilization, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Historiography, Judaism / History, Jewish
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 13.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Moshe Rosman
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
