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Twentieth Century Jews
Monty Noam Penkower
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry’s long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, the author proceeds to examine how the Land of Promise across the Atlantic exerted different influences on Abraham Selmanovitz, Felix Frankfurter, the founders of the American Council for Judaism, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Professor Penkower then shows how the prospect of nationalism in the biblical Promised Land engendered other tensions and transformations, ranging from the plight of Hayim Nahman Bialik, to rivalry within the Orthodox Jewish camp, to on-going strife between the political Left and Right over the nature of the emerging Jewish state.
Rezensionen
"Penkower (emer., Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem), the author of a number of scholarly books on contemporary Jewish history (e.g., Decision on Palestine Deferred, CH, Jan'03, 40-2962), has written an important collection of essays profiling the response of prominent 20th-century US and Palestinian Jews to their Jewish identity. Five of the chapters among these well-crafted essays have been published elsewhere but revised and expanded for this volume. Beginning with his chapter on the 1903 Kishinev pogrom, a turning point in modern Jewish history, Penkower describes how the violent riot triggered the immigration of one million Jews to the US and some 40,000 to Palestine, including among them the future leaders of the state of Israel. Among the US personalities discussed are Felix Frankfurter and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the lesser-known Orthodox rabbi Abraham Isaac Selmanovitz, and the anti-Jewish-statehood organization, the American Council for Judaism. The chapters on Palestine include consideration of the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik, assassinated Labor Zionist leader Chaim Arlosoroff, and Shlomo Ben-Yosef, the first Jew to be hanged by British authorities following his attack on an Arab bus in 1938 in retaliation for incessant terrorism against Jews in Palestine. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries."
