1st Edition
Jews and Gentiles A Historical Sociology of Their Relations
By Werner J. Cahnman
Copyright 2004
253 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
253 Pages
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Routledge
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Studies of the Jewish experience among peoples with whom they live share some similarities with the usual histories of anti-Semitism, but also some differences. When the focus is on anti-Semitism, Jewish history appears as a record of unmitigated hostility against the Jewish people and of passivity on their part. However, as Werner J. Cahnman demonstrates in this posthumous volume, Jewish-Gentile... Read more
1: Approach to the Subject; 2: Theology as a Point of Departure; 3: The Initial Position of the Jews in the Social Structure; 4: The Usury Privilege; 5: The Revolt of the Masses; 6: The Jews and the Society of the High Middle Ages; 7: The Judaeo-Arabic Symbiosis and the Splendor and Misery of the Jews of Spain; 8: The Jews of Eastern Europe; 9: The Ghetto; 10: Court Jews and Bankers; 11: Galut and Citizenship; 12: From Liberalism to Racism: The Dialectics of Catastrophe; 13: The Actual Jew and the Mythical Jew; 14: A Comment about the Soviet Union; 15: Is America Different?; 16: Varieties of Pluralism in America; 17: Jews and Blacks; 18: The State of Israel
Biography
Werner J. Cahnman
