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Jacob & Esau : Jewish European history between nation and empire / Malachi Haim Hacohen, Duke University, North Carolina

Hacohen, Malachi Haim, 1957- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2019

xxi, 733 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

1809

Erscheint auch als: Jacob & Esau / Hacohen, Malachi Haim (Online-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Hacohen, Malachi Haim, 1957-, Jacob & Esau : Jewish European history between nation and empire] / Brenner, Michael

1-316-51037-9 ((hardback)); 1-316-64984-9 ((paperback)); 978-1-316-51037-7 ((hardback)); 978-1-316-64984-8 ((paperback))

978-1-108-22681-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

1027217966

OCoLC: 1098197482     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108226813

NY 1500      Ähnliche Literatur

BM535

940/.04924

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 11.51 (Frühes Christentum)

SSG-Nummer(n): 1

*Europa ; Juden ; Christentum ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History ; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History ; Jews -- Europe -- History ; Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History

Machine generated contents note: List of figures; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration from Hebrew to English; Introduction: Jewish European history; 1. Writing Jewish European history; 2. Rabbinic Jacob and Esau, Pagan Rome, and the Christian Empire; 3. Esau, Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom; 4. Waning Edom? Early Modern Christian-Jewish Hybridities; 5. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, I: 1789-1839; 6. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, II: 1840-1878; 7. The Austrian Jewish Intelligentsia between empire and nation, 1879-1918; 8. Imperial peoples in an ethnonational age? Jews and other Austrians in the First Republic, 1918-1938; 9. Jacob the Jew: Antisemitism and the end of emancipation, 1879-1935; 10. Esau the Goy: Jewish and German ethnic myths, 1891-1945; 11. Typology and the Holocaust: Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe; 12. Postwar Europe: Austria, the Congress for cultural freedom, and the internationalization of European culture; 13. A post-Holocaust breakthrough? Jacob and Esau today; Epilogue: the end of postwar exceptionalism

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"Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history which, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews through the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures"--