The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 pdf

Dan Mark Cohn-Sherbok è un rabbino del giudaismo riformato e un teologo ebreo. È professore emerito di giudaismo all'Università del Galles. Nato a Denver, in Colorado, si è diplomato alla East High School (Denver) ed è stato studente al Williams College, Massachusetts, trascorrendo un anno all'estero ad Atene, in Grecia.
Fu ordinato rabbino riformato presso l'Ebraico Union College di Cincinnati. Era un cappellano della Camera dei rappresentanti del Colorado e colonnello onorario aiutante di campo del New Mexico. Ha servito come rabbino negli Stati Uniti, Inghilterra, Australia e Sud Africa. Era uno studente al Wolfson College di Cambridge e remava sulla barca del Wolfson College. Ha conseguito un dottorato in filosofia presso l'Università di Cambridge in Inghilterra. In seguito, ha ricevuto un dottorato onorario in divinità dall'Ebraico Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City. Insegnò teologia all'Università del Kent e servì come Direttore del Center for the Study of Religion and Society, ed è stato professore di ebraismo all'Università del Galles. È stato professore in visita presso l'Università di Essex, Middlesex University, St. Andrews University, Durham University, University of Vilnius, Lituania, Charles University, Praga, York St John University, Trinity University College, St Mary's University, Twickenham, St Andrews Biblical Theological College, Mosca e Professore Onorario all'Università Aberystwyth. È stato visiting fellow al Wolfson College, Cambridge, e all'Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Fellow della Royal Asiatic Society, Fellow della Royal Society of Arts, Corrispondente Fellow dell'Academy of Jewish Philosophy, Visiting Research Fellow dell'Heythrop College, Università di Londra, membro a vita del Wolfson College, Cambridge, membro anziano onorario del Darwin College, Università del Kent, membro associato dell'SCR Christ Church, Oxford, membro dell'SCR Harris Manchester College, Oxford e membro della London Society for the Study of Religion e dell'Arts and Humanities Peer Review College. Ha anche lavorato come Visiting Scholar al Mansfield College di Oxford, all'Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies e al Sarum College. È stato finalista del Times Preacher of the Year e vincitore del concorso di design Royal Academy Friends. È sposato con Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok.

The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 pdf da Dan Cohn-Sherbok

The Jews in the Modern World covers the period from 1750 until the present, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores in detail the diverse ways in which the Jewish people have reacted to Modernity. As well as covering the Holocaust, the Diaspora and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the authors have included material on anti-Semitism, philo-Semitism, Sephardi and Oriental Jewry and the development of rival ideologies within the Jewish community. An important section of the book is devoted to the often neglected topic of the role of women in Judaism. Interest in modern Jewish history has never been greater, but despite the huge amount of recent research, this is the first major textbook in forty years to deal with the topic in a clear and undogmatic manner.
"During the past thirty years, the study of modern Jewish history has moved from the periphery to the centre of academic historiography. Hardly taught at the university level a generation ago, and all but ignored in mainstream history textbooks, modern Jewish history has become a widely-recognised subject attracting considerable interest and a vast, ever-growing volume of monographs, journals, conferences, and dissertations. In part this has occurred because of the centrality of the Holocaust to contemporary con- sciousness, of a general awareness of the Jews as the archetypal persecuted minority, and of the popularity of ethnicity as a mode of social analysis. In part it has occurred because of the breakdown, regretted by many, of the familiar 'kings, dates, and battles' history oriented around the nation-state, and its supercession, in part, by categories derived from social history. In part it has occurred because of the sheer volume of writing on this subject, generally by Jewish scholars, but often and increasingly by non-Jews."