Yale University Press 1998 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in fine condition. DJ in near fine condition with faint rubbing to rear.

US 1995: Yale University Press, Date: 1998 244 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. Yale University Press ISBN 0300072163 9780300072167 [AU]

ISBN10: 0300072163, ISBN13: 9780300072167, [publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press] Hardcover XI, 244 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, overall very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - In this fascinating new collection of essays, contemporary historians examine the ways earlier historians have framed, written, and "made" the Jewish past. Probing the ideology and methodology of their professional predecessors, American and Israeli historians offer new perspectives on some of the central figures of twentieth-century Jewish historiography, including Gershom Scholem, S. D. Goitein, Yitzhak Baer, Elias Bickerman, and Cecil Roth, as well as the Israeli "New Historians." Although the lives and work of these scholars differ in many ways, Jewish historians have recurrently confronted the challenges posed by assimilation, anti-Semitism, and various forms of nationalism. Through their critical examinations of the construction of the Jewish past, the contributors to this volume develop important insights into current attitudes toward the dominant canons and ideals of historical scholarship and the future of historiography. They shine new light on the formation of a historical worldview and the "making" of history. - David N. Myers is associate professor of history and director of the ...