Comparing Jewish societies
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Comparing Jewish societies
（The comparative studies in society and history book series）
University of Michigan Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : comparing Jewish societies / Todd M. Endelman
- Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness : a comparative analysis of pre-modern Jewish communities / Stephen Sharot
- Jewish millennial-messianic movements : a comparison of medieval communities / Stephen Sharot
- Enlightenment and emancipation : German Jewry's formative age in comparative perspective / David Sorkin
- The modern Jewish diaspora : East European Jews in New York, London, and Paris / Nancy L. Green
- The importance of place : comparative aspects of the ritual murder trial in modern Central Europe / Hillel J. Kieval
- Andean two-step : the encounter between Bolivians and Central European Jewish refugees / Leo Spitzer
- Colonization and decolonization : the case of Zionist and African elites / Dan V. Segre
- Railway workers and relational history : Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine / Zachary Lockman
- The viability of ethnic democracy as a mode of conflict management : comparing Israel and Northern Ireland / Sammy Smooha
- Religion and communal life in an evolutionary-functional perspective : the orthodox kibbutzim / Aryei Fishman
- The situational analysis of religious change revisited / Shlomo Deshen
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780472065929
Description
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-siecle 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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: cloth ISBN 9780472095926
Description
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-siecle 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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