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Geography of hope : exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation

Title

Geography of hope : exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation / Pierre Birnbaum ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

Author

Birnbaum, Pierre.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

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Description

479 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Uniform Title

Géographie de l'espoir. English
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Alternative Title

Géographie de l'espoir.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-479).

Contents

Introduction: Toward a counterhistory -- Karl Marx: around a surprising encounter with Heinrich Graetz -- Émile David Durkheim: the memory of Masada -- Georg Simmel: the stranger, from Berlin to Chicago -- Raymond Aron: an "authentic French Jew" in search of his roots -- Hannah Arendt: Hannah and Rahel, "fugitives from Palestine" -- Isaiah Berlin: the awakening of a wounded nationalism -- Michael Walzer: the end of whispering -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: a home for "fallen Jews" -- Conclusion: exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation.

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