| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revolutionary backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, Stern unearths the path that led a group of rabbis, scientists, communal leaders, and political upstarts to reconstruct the core tenets of Judaism and join the vanguard of twentieth-century revolutionary politics. In the face of dire poverty and rampant anti-Semitism, they mobilized Judaism for projects directed at ensuring the fair and equal distribution of resources in society. Their program drew as much from the universalism of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin as from the messianism and utopianism of biblical and Kabbalistic works. Once described as a religion consisting of rituals, reason, and rabbinics, Judaism was now also rooted in land, labor, and bodies. Exhaustively researched, this original, revisionist account challenges our standard narratives of nationalism, secularization, and de-Judaization."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Tradition -- Social materialism -- Scientific materialism -- Practical materialism -- The materialization of spirit -- Conclusion: Jewish body politics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century.
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Jews. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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Intellectual life. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- History -- 19th century.
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Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. |
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Economic conditions. |
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HISTORY -- Jewish. |
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Jews -- Economic conditions. |
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Jews -- Intellectual life. |
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Judaism. |
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Judaism -- Modern period. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1750 |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stern, Eliyahu, 1976- Jewish materialism. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300221800 (DLC) 2017948470 (OCoLC)1002129763 |
| ISBN |
9780300235586 (electronic book) |
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0300235585 (electronic book) |
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9780300221800 |
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0300221800 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780300221800 |
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