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"Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence." "After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective."--Jacket.

Historicism --- Historicism. --- Historicisme --- Historisme. --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship. --- Jews --- Joodse filosofie. --- Judaism --- Judaïsme --- Juifs --- History. --- Histoire. --- History --- Intellectual life --- Historiography. --- Historiographie. --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- Breuer, Isaac, --- Cohen, Hermann, --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Strauss, Leo --- Strauss, Leo. --- Et l'historicisme. --- 1800-1999. --- Germany.

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David Myers' book explores a fascinating and untold chapter in modern Jewish intellectual history: the role of the first generation of Jewish scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in establishing Jewish studies within framework of a Jewish national university. committed to rewriting Jewish history according to zionist standarts, these "Jerusalem scholars" richly reflect the tensions that attended their dual allegiances, to both zionism and the discipline of history.

15.01 historiography. --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Geschiedschrijving. --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship. --- Jewish scholars --- Jewish scholars --- Jewish scholars. --- Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Jodendom. --- Juden. --- Zionism --- Zionism --- Zionism --- Zionisme. --- Zionismus. --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Freie Universität Berlin --- Hebrew University --- Jerusalem / Hebräische Universität. --- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim --- Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. --- Universiṭah ha-ʻivrit bi-Yerushalayim --- ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. --- History. --- History. --- 1800-1999. --- Europe. --- Jerusalem. --- Middle East

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A leading scholar of Jewish history's bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers's illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers's belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.

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Jews --- Judaism --- Zionism --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Juifs --- Judaïsme --- Sionisme --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Historiographie --- Historiographie --- Historiographie --- Historiographie