Revisiting Baron's "Lachrymose Conception": the meanings of violence in jewish history
In a paper entitled, “Newer Emphases in Jewish History,” published in 1963, Salo Baron wrote: “All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant “lachrymose conception of Jewish history” … because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the total picture of the...
| Subtitles: | Symposium: Rethinking Salo W. Baron in the Twenty-First Century |
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2014]
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AJS review
Year: 2014, 卷: 38, 发布: 2, Pages: 431-439 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Baron, Salo W. 1895-1989
/ 犹太教
/ 历史
/ 反犹太主义
/ 暴力
B 迫害犹太人 / 驱逐 / 战争 / Chronometer |
| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
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| 总结: | In a paper entitled, “Newer Emphases in Jewish History,” published in 1963, Salo Baron wrote: “All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant “lachrymose conception of Jewish history” … because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the total picture of the Jewish historic evolution….” Indeed, if one was to choose a single idea that encapsulated the legacy of Baron, perhaps the pre-eminent Jewish historian of the twentieth century, it would probably be this: Jewish history is not to be seen simply as a series of persecutions, which determined its nature and its course, but rather as a process of ongoing engagement between the Jews and their surroundings. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S036400941400035X |