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The social contexts of method
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ISBN: 0856645303 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Croom Helm

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Social method and social life
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ISBN: 0121315509 Year: 1981 Publisher: London Academic Press

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The structure of action
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ISBN: 0631197001 Year: 1980 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,


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Multilateralism and western strategy
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ISBN: 0312123612 Year: 1995 Publisher: Basingstoke St. Martin's Press

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Terms of engagement : the United States and the European security identity.
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ISBN: 0275964973 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Praeger


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Prophets of the past : interpreters of Jewish history
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ISBN: 1282692275 9786612692277 1400836611 9781400836611 9781282692275 9780691139289 0691139288 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He deftly traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany; to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow, the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians, and the short-lived efforts of Soviet-Jewish historians; to the work of British and American scholars such as Cecil Roth and Salo Baron; and to Zionist and post-Zionist interpretations of Jewish history. He also unravels the distortions of Jewish history writing, including antisemitic Nazi research into the "Jewish question," the Soviet portrayal of Jewish history as class struggle, and Orthodox Jewish interpretations of history as divinely inspired. History proved to be a uniquely powerful weapon for modern Jewish scholars during a period when they had no nation or army to fight for their ideological and political objectives, whether the goal was Jewish emancipation, diasporic autonomy, or the creation of a Jewish state. As Brenner demonstrates in this illuminating and incisive book, these historians often found legitimacy for these struggles in the Jewish past.


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In Search of Israel
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ISBN: 1400889219 9781400889211 069117928X 0691203970 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East. It is this paradox, says historian Michael Brenner--the Jewish people's wish for a homeland both normal and exceptional-that shapes Israel's ongoing struggle to define itself and secure a place among nations. In Search of Israel is a major new history of this struggle from the late nineteenth century to our time.When Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in 1897, no single solution to the problem of "normalizing" the Jewish people emerged. Herzl proposed a secular-liberal "New Society" that would be home to Jews and non-Jews alike. East European Zionists advocated the renewal of the Hebrew language and the creation of a distinct Jewish culture. Socialists imagined a society of workers' collectives and farm settlements. The Orthodox dreamt of a society based on the laws of Jewish scripture. The stage was set for a clash of Zionist dreams and Israeli realities that continues today.Seventy years after its founding, Israel has achieved much, but for a state widely viewed as either a paragon or a pariah, Brenner argues, the goal of becoming a state like any other remains elusive. If the Jews were the archetypal "other" in history, ironically, Israel-which so much wanted to avoid the stamp of otherness-has become the Jew among the nations.


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Kleine jüdische Geschichte
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ISBN: 9783406576683 Year: 2008 Publisher: München : Beck,

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Jews --- History.

Jüdische Kultur in der Weimarer Republik
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ISBN: 3406461212 9783406461217 Year: 2000 Publisher: München : C.H. Beck,

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