Ava F. Kahn

Transnational Traditions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires¿as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global and transnational influences on the modern world. Editors Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn offer a new approach in Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History as contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader context of cultural, commercial, and social exchange with Jews in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. In examining patterns that cross national boundaries, contributors offer new ways of understanding the development of American Jewish life. The diverse chapters, written by leading scholars, reflect on episodes of continuity and contact between Jews...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814338629
• Artikelnr.: 41869682