The Decline of the West and the Rise of the East: Rewriting Jewish Pasts for the Eight Hundredth Maimonides Anniversary in Sarajevo and Cairo
In spring 1935 the Jewish world celebrated the eight hundredth anniversary of Moses Maimonides's birth with public events, newspaper articles, and academic publications. At the time, the dominant historical narrative tied Rambam with Western Wissenschaft des Judentums, while the trope of Sephar...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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AJS review
Anno: 2025, Volume: 49, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 109-135 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Ebraismo
/ Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Anno commemorativo
/ Sarajevo
/ Kairo
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | BH Ebraismo |
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| Riepilogo: | In spring 1935 the Jewish world celebrated the eight hundredth anniversary of Moses Maimonides's birth with public events, newspaper articles, and academic publications. At the time, the dominant historical narrative tied Rambam with Western Wissenschaft des Judentums, while the trope of Sephardic decline after the Spanish expulsion in the fifteenth century dominated narratives for eastern Mediterranean Jewry. This article argues that the initial attempt to dismiss the linear telling of eastern Mediterranean Jewish history came from the communities themselves already in the 1920s and peaked in the mid-1930s. While the 1930s unearthed deep anxieties in the Jewish world, this decade also saw a significant impulse within eastern Mediterranean communities to insert their own political and cultural stands. On the examples of Sarajevo and Cairo, this article historicizes the attempt to revise and amend Jewish historiographical narratives—long before postnationalist narratives and postcolonial revisionist histories entered modern Jewish studies., Abstract:, In spring 1935 the Jewish world celebrated the eight hundredth anniversary of Moses Maimonides's birth with public events, newspaper articles, and academic publications. At the time, the dominant historical narrative tied Rambam with Western Wissenschaft des Judentums, while the trope of Sephardic decline after the Spanish expulsion in the fifteenth century dominated narratives for eastern Mediterranean Jewry. This article argues that the initial attempt to dismiss the linear telling of eastern Mediterranean Jewish history came from the communities themselves already in the 1920s and peaked in the mid-1930s. While the 1930s unearthed deep anxieties in the Jewish world, this decade also saw a significant impulse within eastern Mediterranean communities to insert their own political and cultural stands. On the examples of Sarajevo and Cairo, this article historicizes the attempt to revise and amend Jewish historiographical narratives—long before postnationalist narratives and postcolonial revisionist histories entered modern Jewish studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ajs.2025.a958079 |
