Perceptions of Jewish HistoryUniversity of California Press, 1. sep. 2023 - 408 sider "Perceptions of Jewish History scintillates with original ideas and insights. It will appeal to a broad audience."--Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame "Students of the Jewish past will welcome this volume; it will also attract readers with the widest possible range of interests."--Robert Chazan, New York University |
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Side 4
... individuals who act , are aware , and remember . Just as a nation cannot eat or dance , it cannot speak or remember . Remembering is a mental act , and therefore absolutely and completely personal . Even if we were to commit ourselves ...
... individuals who act , are aware , and remember . Just as a nation cannot eat or dance , it cannot speak or remember . Remembering is a mental act , and therefore absolutely and completely personal . Even if we were to commit ourselves ...
Side 6
... individual's memory — that is , the act of remembering — is the instantiation of these symbols , analogous to " speech " ; no act of remembering is like any other . The point of departure and frame of reference of memory is the system ...
... individual's memory — that is , the act of remembering — is the instantiation of these symbols , analogous to " speech " ; no act of remembering is like any other . The point of departure and frame of reference of memory is the system ...
Side 7
... individuals recall socially significant events they experi- enced . A common experience may be shared by a generation . 13 Although here , too , memory is assisted by signs , symbols , and meanings , some of which have received public ...
... individuals recall socially significant events they experi- enced . A common experience may be shared by a generation . 13 Although here , too , memory is assisted by signs , symbols , and meanings , some of which have received public ...
Side 8
... individual . Halbwachs , like Durk- heim , was aware that only the individual thinks or remembers ; never- theless , he ( like Durkheim or the members of the Annales school to this day ) endows the collective memory with attributes that ...
... individual . Halbwachs , like Durk- heim , was aware that only the individual thinks or remembers ; never- theless , he ( like Durkheim or the members of the Annales school to this day ) endows the collective memory with attributes that ...
Side 9
... individual instantiation . In other words , the more a culture permits conscious changes and variations of the narrator in the contents , symbols , and structures of collective memory , the more complex and less predictable the ...
... individual instantiation . In other words , the more a culture permits conscious changes and variations of the narrator in the contents , symbols , and structures of collective memory , the more complex and less predictable the ...
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History Counterhistory and Narrative | 20 |
History Counterhistorv and Narrative | 30 |
Biblical and Postbiblical Perceptions of History | 48 |
The Historical Novel as Reflexive Literature | 55 |
The Apocalyptic Mentality | 68 |
Medieval Exegesis and Historical Consciousness | 86 |
Haskala History and the Medieval Tradition | 232 |
The Modernization of Western European Jews | 245 |
Franz Rosenzweig and the End of GermanJewish Philosophy | 255 |
Urformell and Urzelle | 258 |
Hermann Cohen and His Legacy | 268 |
Rosenzweig on the Destiny of Judaism | 289 |
Theological Responses to the Holocaust | 304 |
The Holocaust as Punishment and Signal | 305 |
Nachmanidess Reading of the Biblical Narrative | 96 |
Gersonidess Biblical Commentary | 119 |
Law Philosophy and Historical Awareness | 129 |
The Image of the Ruler in Jewish Sources | 153 |
Polemics Responses and SelfReflection | 167 |
Changes in Christian AntiJewish Polemics in the Twelfth Century | 170 |
Responses to Adversity | 199 |
History Apologetics and Humanism | 206 |
The Threshold of Modernity | 218 |
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