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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Malachi Haim Hacohen (Duke University, North Carolina)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.320kg ISBN: 9781316510377ISBN 10: 1316510379 Pages: 752 Publication Date: 10 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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.Reviews'Malachi Hacohen explains the interactions between nations and empires through the prism of Jewish experience, see in the round and in wonderful detail. This is one of the greatest books in social studies published in the postwar years, an absolute masterpiece by a scholar of astonishing power.' John A. Hall, McGill University 'Monumental in scope and in moral intensity, Hacohen's historically grounded meditation on European Jewish history is like no other book. Organized around the biblical tale of Isaac's quarreling sons named in the title, Jacob & Esau demonstrates the importance of the rabbinical Judaism so often neglected or patronized.' David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley 'This historiographical sweep and conceptual boldness, this monumental study will doubtlessly command the critical attention of a wide readership. The resulting debate will surely secure Professor Hacohen's position at the forefront of contemporary historians.' Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor emeritus of Modern Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Divinity School, The University of Chicago Advance praise: 'Malachi Haim Hacohen explains the interactions between nations and empires through the prism of Jewish experience, see in the round and in wonderful detail. This is one of the greatest books in social studies published in the postwar years, an absolute masterpiece by a scholar of astonishing power.' John A. Hall, author of Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography Verso Advance praise: 'Monumental in scope and in moral intensity, Hacohen's historically grounded meditation on European Jewish history is like no other book. Organized around the biblical tale of Isaac's quarreling sons named in the title, Jacob and Esau demonstrates the importance of the rabbinical Judaism so often neglected or patronized.' David A. Hollinger, author of Science, Jews, and Secular Culture Advance praise: 'This historiographical sweep and conceptual boldness, this monumental study will doubtlessly command the critical attention of a wide readership. The resulting debate will surely secure Professor Hacohen's position at the forefront of contemporary historians.' Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of German Jews: A Dual Identity Advance praise: 'Staggering in its range and ambition, this ground breaking (and deeply personal) attempt to write a 'Jewish European history' reveals Hacohen to be one of the most thought-provoking and original thinkers working in the field today.' Abigail Green, author of Moses Montefiore: Jewish Hero, Imperial Liberator Author InformationMalachi Haim Hacohen is Professor and Bass Fellow at Duke University, North Carolina. He serves as the Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His book Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945 (Cambridge, 2000) won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association and Austria's Victor Adler State Prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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