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  2. Modern Jewish historiography - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Jewish historians - Wikipedia

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    Abba Eban, Israeli writer about Israeli and Jewish history; Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine [citation needed] Alfred Edersheim Australian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar [citation needed] Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world [2] Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe [2] Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian [2]

  4. Jewish literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah , two related kingdoms that emerged in the Levant during the Iron Age .

  6. Hebrew literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Proto-Zionism - Wikipedia

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    Moses Hess R. Zvi Hirsch Kalischer R. Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai. Proto-Zionism (or Forerunner of Zionism; Hebrew: מְבַשְרֵי הציונות, pronounced: Mevasrei ha-Tzionut) is a concept in historiography describing Jewish thinkers active during the second half of the 19th century who were deeply affected by the idea of modern nationalism spreading in Europe at that time.

  8. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory - Wikipedia

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    According to 2019 The New Yorker article, Yerushalmi's central argument is that modern Jewish historiography rejects the "premises that were basic to all Jewish conceptions of history in the past." "Remember" is a "command delivered many times in the Bible, and it is possible to see Judaism itself as a technology of memory, a set of practices ...

  9. Wissenschaft des Judentums - Wikipedia

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    "Wissenschaft des Judentums" (literally in German the expression means "Science of Judaism"; more recently in the United States it started to be rendered as "Jewish Studies" or "Judaic Studies," a wide academic field of inquiry in American universities) refers to a nineteenth-century movement premised on the critical investigation of Jewish literature and culture, including rabbinic literature ...