Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, particularly in Tsarist Russia. While the influence of the Hebrew Bible alone on nationalism in individual periods has been subject to much scholarly study, the present work is unusual in its emphasis on the continuity of Jewish cultural nationalism and its influences through Hebrew texts.
Author(s): David Aberbach
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 144
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Nationalism and the Hebrew Bible......Page 19
2 The Roman–Jewish wars and Hebrew cultural nationalism......Page 39
3 Jewish nationalism in medieval Islam......Page 50
4 Nationalism, reform Judaism and the Hebrew prayer book......Page 70
5 The renascence of Hebrew and Jewish nationalism in the Tsarist empire 1881–1917......Page 89
Notes......Page 114
Bibliography......Page 123
Index......Page 134
