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The Jewish Century, New Edition / Yuri Slezkine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691192826
  • 9780691193748
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940/.04924 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2019 Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Mercury's Sandals: The Jews and Other Nomads -- CHAPTER 2. Swann's Nose: The Jews and Other Moderns -- CHAPTER 3. Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution -- CHAPTER 4. Hodl's Choice: The Jews and Three Promised Lands -- Notes -- Index
Summary: This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to the modern world so well that they have become models of what it means to be modern. While focusing on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring, The Jewish Century is also an incredibly original account of the many faces of modernity-nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism. Rich in its insight, sweeping in its chronology, and fearless in its analysis, this is a landmark contribution to Jewish, Russian, European, and American history.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780691193748

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2019 Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Mercury's Sandals: The Jews and Other Nomads -- CHAPTER 2. Swann's Nose: The Jews and Other Moderns -- CHAPTER 3. Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution -- CHAPTER 4. Hodl's Choice: The Jews and Three Promised Lands -- Notes -- Index

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This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to the modern world so well that they have become models of what it means to be modern. While focusing on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring, The Jewish Century is also an incredibly original account of the many faces of modernity-nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism. Rich in its insight, sweeping in its chronology, and fearless in its analysis, this is a landmark contribution to Jewish, Russian, European, and American history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)