1st Edition
Nationalism, War and Jewish Education From the Roman Empire to Modern Times
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Nationalism and Jewish Education in the Roman Era
1. The early Roman background: Jewish education and Jewish/Greek relations
2. Roman government, Greek freedmen and Jewish education
3. Josephus and the struggle for Jewish accommodation with Rome
4. Defeat, nationalism and Jewish education after 70 CE
5. Jewish education, Roman and Jewish law and Stoic philosophy
6. The Mishna, Galilee, and Jewish education
7. The rabbis and Jewish education as history
8. How did Jewish education affect class differences?
9. Education in the love of Israel: the anti-prophetic streak in rabbinic literature
10. The double standard of Jewish education
11. To pay or not to pay? The problem of the schoolteacher
Part 2: From Emancipation to Political Nationalism, 1789-1948
12. Jewish education and the rise of the secular state
13. Emancipation and the Jewish return to war
14. Heresy and continuity in post-1789 Jewish education
15. Emancipation, the Hebrew revival and the retreat from Hebrew
16. Jewish education in Hebrew literature
17. Pogroms and Jewish militarization
18. The revival of Hebrew 1917-1939
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Studies, McGill University, Montreal. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, the LSE, UCL, and Harvard. His work bridges the arts and social sciences; his books include, Surviving Trauma: loss, literature, and psychoanalysis; Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media; and National Poetry, Empires and War.
