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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David N. MyersPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780300228939ISBN 10: 0300228937 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 06 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsDenying the starkest of oppositions between the construction of memory and the claims of scholarship in an inspired dialogue with his honored teacher, David N. Myers renews the public role of history in his rich new lectures. The results are indispensable. -Samuel Moyn, Yale University -- Samuel Moyn David Myers, author of several ground-breaking works on Jewish history and historiography, provides us with yet another rich and thoughtful account of Jewish historiography. -Michael Brenner, American University and University of Munich -- Michael Brenner As the glamorous dichotomy between history and memory hardens into cliche, David Myers wishes to explode it. He moves beyond the romantic melancholy of Yosef Hayyim Yerushalmi, who marooned the Jewish historian in an objectivity that offered no nourishment to his community and his culture, and instead he learnedly delineates traditions of Jewish historiography for which there was no contradiction between scholarship and service. In the spirit of an activist era, this is a provocative appeal for historically engaged history. -Leon Wieseltier -- Leon Wieseltier Eloquent and erudite, this review of Jewish historiography crosses boundaries of discipline and identity. With empathy and ethics, Myers lends new meaning to ancient and contemporary histories in a morally trying era. A truly human book. -Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- Galit Hasan-Rokem Denying the starkest of oppositions between the construction of memory and the claims of scholarship in an inspired dialogue with his honored teacher, David N. Myers renews the public role of history in his rich new lectures. The results are indispensable. -Samuel Moyn, Yale University -- Samuel Moyn David Myers, author of several ground-breaking works on Jewish history and historiography, provides us with yet another rich and thoughtful account of Jewish historiography. -Michael Brenner, American University and University of Munich -- Michael Brenner Author InformationDavid N. Myers is President/CEO of the Center for Jewish History in New York, as well as Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written extensively in the fields of Jewish intellectual and cultural history in the modern age. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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