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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826525203321

Autore

Seltzer Robert

Titolo

Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews / / by Robert M. Seltzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26067-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, , 1873-9008 ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

909/.04924007202

Soggetti

Jewish historians - Russia

Jews - Russia - History - 19th century

Jews - Russia - Social conditions - 19th century

Russia Ethnic relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter One Leaving the Shtetl / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Two From Haskalah to Positivism / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Three Young Dubnow as a Jewish Positivist / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Four Coping with New Realities / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Five Romantic Positivism / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Six The Historian Becomes a Nationalist / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Seven From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter Eight Reconsiderations / Robert M. Seltzer -- Bibliography / Robert M. Seltzer -- Dubnow’s “Auto Bibliography” / Robert M. Seltzer -- Index / Robert M. Seltzer.

Sommario/riassunto

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.