Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
AJS Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (1993) 29-37
Keywords:
Baron, Salo W.
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Jews Historiography
Abstract:
A paper delivered at the 1990 conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Focuses on the influence of Baron's original orientation toward the modern period on some of his central views of the medieval Jewish experience, giving four examples: his emphasis on the role of growing European nationalism which caused the decline of medieval Jewry; his reassessment of the role of the Church (as a victim, along with Judaism, of incipient nationalism); his interest in demographic change, showing that the great majority of Jews migrated due to a normal desire to improve their lives and not because of expulsions and persecutions, dramatic though they were; and his conviction that the history of the Jews can only be understood in the broader societal context in which they found themselves.
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