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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Veröffentlicht: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2015]
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
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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