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Resisting history : historicism and its discontents in German-Jewish thought
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ISBN: 0691115931 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. 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.


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Capitalism and the Jews.
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ISBN: 9780691144788 0691144788 9786612458040 069115306X 9786612936135 1400834368 1282936131 1282458043 9781400834365 9781282458048 9781282936133 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university

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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex-and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, Capitalism and the Jews will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.--From the publisher.

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Economic order --- Jewish religion --- Capitalism --- Jews --- Jewish businesspeople --- Nationalism --- Communism --- History --- -Jews --- -Jewish businesspeople --- -Communism --- 330.940089924 --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Jewish businessmen --- Businesspeople --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Electronic information resources --- -Electronic information resources --- E-books --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.313 --- 18 --- 323.1 --- Kapitalisme. --- Godsdienst --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal. --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal --- Kapitalisme --- Capitalism. --- Jewish businesspeople. --- Communism. --- Nationalism. --- History. --- Geschichte. --- Jews - History --- Adolf Hitler. --- Agudat Yisrael. --- Andrei Markovits. --- Anti-capitalism. --- Austria-Hungary. --- Backwardness. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. --- Center for Jewish History. --- Central Europe. --- Chaim Grade. --- Class conflict. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Cultural capital. --- Democratic Leadership Council. --- Derek Penslar. --- Division of labour. --- Doctors' plot. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economic development. --- Economic history. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Ernest Gellner. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic nationalism. --- False consciousness. --- For Marx. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- Germans. --- Harvard University. --- Haskalah. --- Hostility. --- Ideology. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Industrial society. --- Industrialisation. --- Intellectual. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Jewish Bolshevism. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish question. --- Jews. --- Joseph Schumpeter. --- Judaism. --- Labor Zionism. --- Labor theory of value. --- Legal fiction. --- Lev Kamenev. --- Liberalism. --- Lithuania. --- Marxism. --- Menasseh Ben Israel. --- Mensheviks. --- Middle class. --- Miklós Horthy. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Moneylender. --- Montesquieu. --- Nation state. --- Nations and Nationalism (book). --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- New antisemitism. --- Nobility. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Peasant. --- Pogrom. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Romanticism. --- Rothschild family. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-interest. --- Simon Dubnow. --- Social science. --- Social theory. --- Sociology. --- Soviet Union. --- Sovietization. --- Stalinism. --- Tax. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- Tradesman. --- Usury. --- Welfare. --- Western Europe. --- Working class. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Zionism.


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The Israeli economy : a story of success and costs
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ISBN: 9780691229706 9780691199450 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy tells the story of this remarkable transformation, shedding critical new light on Israel's rapid economic growth.Joseph Zeira takes readers from those early days to today, describing how Israel's economic development occurred amid intense fighting with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries. He reveals how the new state's astonishing growth continued into the early 1970s, and traces this growth to public investment in education and to large foreign transfers. Zeira analyzes the costs of the Arab-Israeli conflict, demonstrating how economic output could be vastly greater with a comprehensive peace. He discusses how Israel went through intensive neoliberal economic policies in recent decades, and shows how these policies not only failed to enhance economic performance, but led to significant social inequality.Based on more than two decades of groundbreaking research, The Israeli Economy is an in-depth survey of a modern economy that has experienced rapid growth, wars, immigration waves, and other significant shocks. It thus offers important lessons for nations around the world.

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Economic conditions. Economic development --- Economic geography --- Israel --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- Economic conditions. --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Država Izrael --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- I-se-lieh --- Israele --- Isrāʼīl --- Isŭrael --- Isuraeru --- Izrael --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Israel --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Stát Izrael --- State of Israel --- Yiselie --- Yiśraʼel --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Ізраіль --- מדינת ישראל --- ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- イスラエル --- 以色列 --- Palestine --- Economic history. --- Neoliberalism --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economic aspects --- 1948 Palestinian exodus. --- 1982 Lebanon War. --- Aliyah. --- Arab citizens of Israel. --- Arabs. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Balance of trade. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Beirut. --- Berl Katznelson. --- Business cycle. --- Centre-right politics. --- Chapter 9. --- David Ben-Gurion. --- Demographics of Israel. --- Demography. --- Developed country. --- Economic growth. --- Economic inequality. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy of Israel. --- Economy. --- Education. --- Employment. --- Expense. --- Fifth Aliyah. --- First Aliyah. --- First Intifada. --- Fourth Aliyah. --- Golan Heights. --- Great Famine (Ireland). --- Gulf War. --- Hamas. --- Hashomer Hatzair. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Histadrut. --- Hovevei Zion. --- Illegal immigration. --- Immigration Act of 1924. --- Immigration. --- Inflation tax. --- Institution. --- Intifada. --- Invasion of Kuwait. --- Israel. --- Israeli Declaration of Independence. --- Israelis. --- Israeli–Palestinian conflict. --- Jerusalem. --- Jewish Agency for Israel. --- Jews. --- Labour movement. --- Lebanese Civil War. --- Lecture. --- Mandatory Palestine. --- Market failure. --- Mizrahi Jews. --- Moshav. --- Muslim world. --- Neoliberalism. --- New Nation (United States). --- Old Yishuv. --- Opportunity cost. --- Palestine Liberation Organization. --- Palestinian National Authority. --- Palestinian refugees. --- Palestinian territories. --- Palestinians. --- Petah Tikva. --- Poalei Agudat Yisrael. --- Privatization. --- Public Agenda. --- Public expenditure. --- Recession. --- Refugee. --- Rhetoric. --- Rosh Pinna. --- Safed. --- Salah. --- Second Aliyah. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Sinai Peninsula. --- Six-Day War. --- Social order. --- Statism. --- Suez Crisis. --- Supranational union. --- Tel Aviv. --- The Other Hand. --- Trade agreement. --- Trade union. --- Trade-off. --- Unemployment. --- War of Attrition. --- White Paper of 1939. --- Yishuv. --- Yom Kippur War. --- Zionism.

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