Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26052-8
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Brill

In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in “Letter on Old and New Judaism” that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow’s personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seltzer, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Robert M. Seltzer, PhD (1970) Columbia University, is professor of history, Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is author of Jewish People, Jewish Thought: the Jewish Experience in History (1980) and writes extensively on Jewish intellectual history.