Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians. Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume X.
New York: Published for the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem by Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 439 pp., reviews, recently completed doctoral dissertations. Very Good. Item #66128
ISBN: 0195093550
Articles in the Symposium, "Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians," are "Modern Jewish Ideologies and the Historiography of Jewish Politics," David Biale, "Nineteenth-Century Jewish Historiography: The Second Track," Shmuel Feiner, "Postemancipation Historiography and the Jewish Historical Societies of America and England," Robert Liberles, "Was There a 'Jerusalem School'? An Inquiry into the First Generation of Historical Researchers at the Hebrew University," David N. Myers, "The Dynamics of Social History," Paula E. Hyman, "The End of Myth: Historians and the Yishuv (1918-1948)," Joseph Heller, "Small Forays, Grand Theories and Deep Origins: Current Trends in the Historiography of the Holocaust," Steven E. Acheheim, "The Life of the Dead: Sabras and Immigrants," Emmanuel Sivan, "'True Knowledge and Wisdom': On Orthodox Historiography," Israel Bartal. Essays are "The Land of Israel: Zali Gurevitch and Gideon Aran, "Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kasztner Case," Yehiam Weitz, "The Rothschilds and the Russian Loans - High Finance and Jewish Solidarity," Eliyahu Feldman. Review Essays are "History Through the 'Eye' of the Camera: The Holocasut and Photography," Henry R. Huttenbach, "Sandar Gilman on hatred and Self-Hatred," Bryan Cheyette, "More Than Just Another Country: Writing the History of American Jews," Eli Lederhendler, "In Search of the Exotic: Orthodoxy and Its Ethnographers," Jenna Weissman Joselit.
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