11%OFF
Jewish Responses to Modernity: New Voices in America and Eastern Europe
Eli Lederhendler
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Jewish Responses to Modernity: New Voices in America and Eastern Europe
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1KBB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Facing the dizzying array of changes commonly referred to as modernity, Jews in 19th-century Eastern Europe and early 20th-century America reflected the crises and opportunities of the modern world most eloquently in their speech, culture, and literature. Relying on those spoken and written words as eyewitnesses, Eli Lederhendler illustrates how the self- perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America. He focuses on a wide range of subjects to provide an overview of this clash between old and new and to reveal ways in which cultural conflicts were reconciled.
How, for instance, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814751381
SKU
V9780814751381
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Eli Lederhendler
Eli Lederhendler is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Road to Modern Jewish Politics, which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1990.
Reviews for Jewish Responses to Modernity: New Voices in America and Eastern Europe
"Jewish Responses to Modernity is a model of the scholarly enterprise at its best: highly readable, engaged, informed and informative. Eli Lederhendler's nuanced focus on language and the semiotics of social and political transformations within modern Jewish culture are equally illuminating about the Old World and the New."
Anita Norich,University of Michigan "With the support of unfamiliar documents and ... Read more
Anita Norich,University of Michigan "With the support of unfamiliar documents and ... Read more