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Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich

Daniel R. Schwartz
Apart from an opening survey of modern study of ancient Jewish history, which emphasizes the foundational role of German-Jewish scholars, the studies united in this volume apply philological methods to the writings of four of them: Heinrich Graetz, Isaak Heinemann, Elias Bickerman(n), and Abraham Schalit. In each case, it is argued that some seemingly trivial anomaly or infelicity, in a publication about such ancient characters as Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, and Josephus, points to the way in which the historian constructed, and revised, his understanding of the Jews' situation under Greeks or Romans in light of his perception of the Jews' situation under the Second or Third Reich. The collection also includes a study that focuses on a Jewish medievalist, Philipp Jaffé, and unravels the indirect but inexorable process that led from a scholarly feud about the editing of medieval Latin texts, in the 1860s, to the "Berlin Antisemitism Dispute" (Berliner Antisemitismusstreit) of 1879-1881, which is commonly viewed as the opening act of modern German antisemitism.
Autor: Schwartz, Daniel R.
EAN: 9783110764833
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 180
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Oldenbourg
Untertitel: Seven Studies
Schlagworte: 19. Jahrhundert 20. Jahrhundert Geschichte / Historie Deutschland Judaistik Kulturkampf
Größe: 155 × 230
Gewicht: 411 g