Author: Léon PoliakovPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"Highly recommended without exception."--
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 4
Author: Léon PoliakovPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"Highly recommended without exception."--
Crowds, Psychology, and Politics, 1871-1899
Author: Jaap van GinnekenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521404181
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Jaap van Ginneken's study explores the social and intellectual history of the emergence of crowd psychology in the late nineteenth century. Both the popular work of the French physician LeBon and his predecessors are shown to be influenced and closely connected with both the dramatic events and academic debates of their day.
The Jews: The role of Judaism in civilization (continued). The sociology and demography of the Jews. The Jewish religion
Author: Louis FinkelsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
The Jewish Contribution to Civilization
Author: Jeremy CohenPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800345402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book investigates the idea of a distinct ‘Jewish contribution to civilization’ as it has been understood from the seventeenth century to the present. Offering a broad spectrum of academic opinion, it explores the role that the concept has played in Jewish self-definition and how it has influenced the history of the Jews and of others. It also considers the centrality of the concept in modern Jewish culture and for modern Jewish studies.
Secularism and Its Ambiguities
Author: Carlo GinzburgPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633866421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg's eloquent and engaging discourses. For the purposes of this volume he has re-edited and completed the leporello of cases charged with the inherent ambiguity between secularism and religions. Secularism is often identified with rejection or at least distancing from the sacred. However, if one assumes that secularism also appropriates and reworks the sacred, its ambiguities come to the fore. The dilemma accompanies the reception of La Boétie's Servitude volontaire between 1574 and today. Before Walter Benjamin, the lesser-known 19th-century Léon de Laborde defended the profanity of reproducing the arts. The tension around the secular pervades the case of the College de Sociologie (Paris, 1937-1939), an attempt to analyze the ideological components of fascism. The fourth lecture approaches a much-discussed contemporary phenomenon – fake news – from a long-term perspective. To what extent are some disturbing features of the world we live in the result of a long, tortuous, unpredictable trajectory?
The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day
Author: Cyrus AdlerThe Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: Isidore SingerJulian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture
Author: Stefano TrovatoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000618080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the Eastern Roman) empire, the figure of Julian aroused conflicting reactions: antipathy towards his apostasy but also admiration for his accomplishments, particularly as an author writing in Greek. Julian died young, and his attempt to reinstate paganism was a failure, but, paradoxically, his brief and unsuccessful policy resonated for centuries. This book analyses Julian from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture. The history of his posthumous fortune reveals differences in cultural perspectives and it is most intriguing with regard to the Eastern Roman empire which survived for almost a millennium after the fall of the Western empire. Byzantine culture viewed Julian in multiple ways, first as the legitimate emperor of the enduring Roman empire; second as the author of works written in Greek and handed down for generations in the language that scholars, the Church, and the state administration all continued to use; and third as an open enemy of Christianity. Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture will appeal to researchers and students alike in Byzantine perspectives on Julian, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the Later Roman Empire, as well as those interested in Byzantine Historiography.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738191045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Jews in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Michael GraetzPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804725712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This work on the history of French Jewry, follows the reshaping of Franco-Jewish identity from legal emancipation after the French Revolution, through to the creation in 1860 of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the first international Jewish organization devoted to the struggle for Jewish rights throughout the world.