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Modern Jewish historiography is the development of the Jewish historical narrative into the modern era.While Jewish oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, with the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early modern period, Jewish histories and early editions of the Torah/Tanakh were published which dealt with the history of the ...
A History of the Jews is a 1987 historical book by British historian Paul Johnson. The book provides a broad survey of Jewish history, tracing the development of Jewish culture, religion, and identity from ancient times to the modern era. Johnson explores the Jewish people's contributions to civilization, their resilience in the face of ...
Modern Jewish literature emerged with the Hebrew literature of the Haskalah and broke with religious traditions about literature. Therefore, it can be distinguished from rabbinic literature which is distinctly religious in character. [7] Modern Jewish literature was a unique Jewish literature which often also contributed to the national ...
Jacob Katz, was Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author or editor of many books on medieval and modern Jewish social history [citation needed] Steven T. Katz, U.S. historian of the Holocaust; Shmuel Katz, Israeli historian; Solomon Katz, U.S. historian [2]
A good Jew denounces the government of the Jewish state; a bad Jew believes in the right of self-determination and nationhood for adherents of the world’s oldest practiced religion.
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century. [1]
A New York Times 1984 book review by Leon Wieseltier, the author of Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace, said that Yerushalmi was "one of the Jewish community's most important historians". Zakhor established "him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is "historical thinking of a very high order – mature speculation based on massive scholarship."
Hebrew literature was produced in many different parts of the world throughout the medieval and modern eras, while contemporary Hebrew literature is largely Israeli literature. In 1966, Agnon won the Nobel Prize for Literature for novels and short stories that employ a unique blend of biblical, Talmudic and modern Hebrew, making him the first ...