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Record Nr.

UNISA996247991803316

Autore

Rosman Moshe

Titolo

How Jewish is Jewish history? / / Moshe Rosman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2007

ISBN

1-80034-081-8

1-909821-12-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

909/.4924

Soggetti

Jews - Historiography

Judaism - Historiography

Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Dec 2019).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Writing Jewish history in the postmodern climate -- Some a priori issues in Jewish historiography -- The postmodern period in Jewish history -- Hybrid with what?: The relationship between Jewish culture and other people's cultures -- The Jewish contribution to (multicultural) civilization -- Prolegomenon to the study of Jewish cultural history -- Methodological hybridity: the art of Jewish historiography and the methods of folklore -- Jewish women's history: first steps and a false start: the case of Jacob Katz -- Jewish history and postmodernity: challenge and rapprochement.

Sommario/riassunto

Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the light of post-modernist thinking.