Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century James Loeffler
Historical narrative differs from mere chronology in the links that historians impose on events and dates, mainly as causal connectives. Chronology itself is inherently a selective process, and omissions at this first level will distort any historical accounts built on it. Faults may also surface in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 280-281 |
| Review of: | Rooted cosmopolitans, Jews and human rights in the twentieth century (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018) (Lang, Berel)
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| Summary: | Historical narrative differs from mere chronology in the links that historians impose on events and dates, mainly as causal connectives. Chronology itself is inherently a selective process, and omissions at this first level will distort any historical accounts built on it. Faults may also surface in historical narrative because of competing narratives not taken into account., James Loeffler’s thesis in Rooted Cosmopolitans—his title’s challenge to the classic antisemitic charge of “cosmopolitan rootlessness”—argues that there is a serious omission in the chronicle underlying standard accounts of twentieth century human rights discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz030 |