Making History Jewish

The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Studies in Honor of Professor Israel Bartal

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This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish. While practitioners of Jewish history often assume that “the Jews” are a well-defined ethno-national unit with a distinct, continuous history, this volume questions many of the assumptions that underlie and ultimately help construct Jewish history. Starting with a number of articles on the Jews of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Poland and Hungary, continuing with several studies of Jewish encounters with the advent of nationalism and antisemitism, and concluding with a set of essays on Jewish history and politics in twentieth-century eastern Europe, pre-state Palestine and North America, the volume discusses the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.
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2020
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Front Matter
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
Part 1 East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity
Chapter 1 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland
Chapter 2 Me’ora’ot Tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century
Part 2 Jews and Non-Jews
Chapter 3 “I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings”: Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities
Chapter 4 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend
Chapter 5 “The Great Sir, Unique Among His People”: Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore
Chapter 6 Nation or Religion? The Polish-Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity
Part 3 Nationalism and Antisemitism
Chapter 7 Liberalism, Nationalism and the “Jewish Question” in Late Imperial Russia
Chapter 8 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades
Part 4 Zionism and Its Others
Chapter 9 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire
Chapter 10 Judaism and Islam in Pre-State Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz
Part 5 History and Community
Chapter 11 Dubnow’s Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s The Golden Tradition
Chapter 12 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-Determination
Back Matter
Selected Bibliography
Index
Paweł Maciejko is Associate Professor of History and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816 (2011) and Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (2017).

Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012) and of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2014).
 Acknowledgements
 Notes on Contributors

 Introduction

 1 Making History Jewish: Israel Bartal and the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
 Paweł Maciejko and Scott Ury

 Part 1 East European Jewry and the Transition to Modernity

 2 The Transition from Commonwealth to Empire: Dov Ber Birkenthal on the Partitions of Poland
 Gershon David Hundert

 3 Me’ora’ot tsvi and the Construction of Sabbatianism in the Nineteenth Century
 Jonatan Meir

 Part 2 Jews and Non-Jews

 4 “I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings”: Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities
 Elliott Horowitz, z”l

 5 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend
 Michael K. Silber

 6 “The Great Sir, Unique Among His People”: Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore
 François Guesnet

 7 Nation or Religion? The Polish–Jewish Weekly Izraelita and the Challenges of Modern Identity
 Marcin Wodziński

Part 3 Nationalism and Antisemitism

 8 Liberalism, Nationalism and the “Jewish Question” in Late Imperial Russia
 Semion Goldin

 9 From Dreyfus to Schwarzbard: Changes in the Jewish World over Three Decades
 David Engel

Part 4 Zionism and Its Others

 10 Theodor Herzl, Race, and Empire
 Derek J. Penslar

 11 Judaism and Islam in Pre-state Zionist Thought: Moshe Ayzman, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz
 Hanan Harif

Part 5 History and Community

 12 Dubnow’s Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s The Golden Tradition
 Nancy Sinkoff

 13 Reflections on the Dilemmas of a Minority: Between Acculturation and Self-determination
 Richard I. Cohen

 Selected Bibliography

 Index
Scholars, graduate students and others interested in Jewish history, the study of eastern Europe and the connections between east European Jewry and Jewish society in pre-state Palestine.
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