The Individual in History
Titel: | The Individual in History : Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz / ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, and Eugene R. Sheppard, editors |
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Beteiligt: | ; ; ; |
Veröffentlicht: | Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2015] |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm.) |
Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry |
RVK-Notation: | |
ISBN: | 9781611687330 ; 1611687330 ; 9781611687323 |
- Introduction
- Part I
- Ideology And Politics
- Theodor Herzl: Charisma and Leadership
- The President before Weizmann: David Littwak and the Politics of "Old New Land"
- Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, and the Altneuland Debate: Between Utopia and Radicalism
- The Vilna Gaon and His Disciples as Precursors of Zionism: The Vicissitudes of a Myth
- Me'ir Ya'ari and Hashomer Hatza'ir: The Movement Is Me
- "The Wise Woman of Givat Brenner": Jessie Sampter on Kibbutz, War, and Peace, 1934-1938
- Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin: Revisiting the Irish-Jewish Connection
- The Zionist Leadership of Louis D. Brandeis
- America's Most Memorable Zionist Leaders
- The Rise of Stephen S. Wise as a Jewish Leader
- Part II
- Statecraft
- Weizmann and Ben-Gurion: Portraits in Contrast
- Role, Place, and Time: The Case of Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham in Palestine, 1945-1948
- Bold Decisions: Three Israeli Prime Ministers Who Went against the Grain
- Leadership in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- At the Crossroads: Ben-Gurion at War
- Roosevelt, American Jews, and Rescue Attempts
- Wasfi al-Tall: An Iconic Incarnation of Jordanianism
- Part III
- Intellectual, Social, And Cultural Spheres
- Particularism, Exclusivity, and Monopoly: The History of a Talmudic Statement
- "The Individual in Jewish History": A Feminist Perspective
- Thomas Carlyle versus Henry Thomas Buckle: "Great Man" versus "Historical Laws"
- The Evolution of Roza Georgievna Vinaver: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Politician's Wife in Imperial Russia
- Spatial Coherence as Sovereignty
- Exemplary Leaders: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
- Part IV
- Witnessing History
- Inside Kishinev's Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt, and the Burdens of Truth
- Julian Tuwim: Confronting Antisemitism in Poland
- The Terrible Secret: Some Afterthoughts
- A Testimony to the World of German Orthodox Judaism: A Translation of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's Introduction to His Seridei Eish
- Authors/Survivors/Witnesses: Aharon Appelfeld, Abba Kovner, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel between Literature and Testimony
- Part V
- In The Academy
- On a Desperate Postdoc and the Emergence of Modern German Antisemitism
- Lawrence H. Fuchs: The Scholar as Citizen
- Three Brandeis Presidents: Open Leadership in an American University
- Jehuda Reinharz Select Bibliography
- Editors and Contributors
- Index