Jacob and Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire PDF
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Jacob & Esau Jacob & Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrativeoftheJewishDiasporawiththatoftraditionalJewsandJewish culture.MalachiHacohenusesthebiblicalstoryoftherivaltwins,Jacob andEsau,anditssubsequentretellingbyChristiansandJewsthrough- out the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish–Christianrelationsandtheopeningandclosingofopportunities forJewishlifeinEurope.Jacob&Esautellsanewhistoryofapeople accustomedforovertwoandahalfmillenniatoformingrelationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity,to thenation-state, and experimentingwith both assimila- tionandJewishnationalism.InrewritingthishistoryviaJacobandEsau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that togetherrepresentthepluralityofJewishEuropeancultures. Malachi Haim Hacohen is Professor and Bass Fellow at Duke University.He serves as the Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902–1945 (Cambridge, 2000) won the Herbert BaxterAdamsPrizeoftheAHAandAustria’sVictorAdlerStatePrize. Jacob & Esau Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire Malachi Haim Hacohen DukeUniversity,NorthCarolina UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316510377 DOI:10.1017/9781108226813 ©MalachiHaimHacohen2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Hacohen,MalachiHaim,1957–author. Title: Jacob & Esau : Jewish European history between nation and empire / MalachiHaimHacohen,DukeUniversity,NorthCarolina. Othertitles:JacobandEsau:JewishEuropeanhistorybetweennation andempire Description:NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[2019] Identifiers:LCCN2018022118|ISBN9781316510377(hardback) Subjects:LCSH:Judaism–Relations–Christianity–History.|Christianityand otherreligions–Judaism–History.|Jews–Europe–History.|Europe–Ethnic relations–History.|BISAC:HISTORY/Europe/General. Classification:LCCBM535.H232018|DDC940/.04924–dc23 LCrecordavailableatlccn.loc.gov/2018022118 ISBN978-1-316-51037-7Hardback ISBN978-1-316-64984-8Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Julie, my love ׳חתש הרשו םהרבא תב ןויס Contents ListofFigures pagex Acknowledgments xi ANoteonTransliterationfromHebrewtoEnglish xx Introduction:JewishEuropeanHistory 1 1 WritingJewishEuropeanHistory 15 TypologyandJewishEuropeanHistory 16 Nation,Empire,andtheJewishQuestion 25 TheJewishIntelligentsiaandEuropeanInternationalism 40 JewishEuropeanHistoryToday 48 2 RabbinicJacob&Esau,PaganRome,andtheChristian Empire 55 FromHistorytoEschatology:BiblicalEdom 57 TheEvilEmpire:TannaiticEdom 66 RabbinicJacobandPaganEsau 73 ThunderousSilence?RabbinicEdomandChristianity 79 TheChurchFathersonJacob&Esau 83 3 Esau,Ishmael,andChristianEurope:MedievalEdom 91 IshmaelandEsau:IslamandtheChristianEmpire 92 FromEmpiretoChurch:ChristendomandMedievalEdom 104 MedievalChristianJacob&Esau:BiblicalCommentary 107 BrotherhoodEstranged:JewishAnti-ChristianPolemics 112 EdomfromMidrashtoKabbalah:TheZoharandtheLateMiddleAges 117 LateMedievalEdom:A“Judeo-Christian”Culture? 126 ConvertsandtheWritingofJewishEuropeanHistory 135 4 WaningEdom?EarlyModernChristian–Jewish Hybridities 137 ProtestantJacob&Esau 140 EarlyModernJewishBibles 142 FromEschatologytoCosmogony:EdomintheLurianicKabbalah 146 ChristianHebraismandEdom 155 TheReconciliationinThirtyYears’WarPainting 158 HaskalahTraditionalism:Jacob&EsauinMendelssohn’sBible 162 vii viii Contents SabbateanEnlightenment?EdominEibeschützandFrank 170 TheEndofImperialEdom 184 5 Jacob&EsauandJewishEmancipation,I:1789–1839 187 WrestlingForever:HerderonJacob&Esau’sEmbrace 197 “ThereIsNoBrotherhoodAnymore”:MosesSoferandtheOrthodox Counterrevolution 208 EmancipationJacob:“OurPiousPatriarch”and His“HouseofPrayerforAllNations” 223 6 Jacob&EsauandJewishEmancipation,II:1840–1878 236 ChristianJacob&Esau:CatholicismtoLiberalProtestantism 238 Jacob’sDiasporaMission:SamuelHoldheimandRabbinic Cosmopolitanism 248 HasidicJacob&Esau:TheKabbalahandIlliberalMulticulturalism 254 ˙ Esau’sKiss:SamsonRaphaelHirschandJacob&Esau’sReconciliation 260 AdolfJellinek’sEsau:TheAnxietiesofEmancipation 271 Conclusion 277 7 TheAustrianJewishIntelligentsiaBetweenNationand Empire,1879–1918 279 JewishImperialPolitics:TheCourt,theJews,andCatholicAntisemitism 289 SocialistFederalismandMultinationalism 296 LiberalJewsBetweenNationandEmpire 300 ImperialFederalismandJewishNationalism:FischhoftoBirnbaum 305 KarlPopper,theOpenSociety,andtheCosmopolitanDemocratic Empire 314 Conclusion 330 8 ImperialPeoplesinanEthno-nationalAge?Jewsand OtherAustriansintheFirstRepublic,1918–1938 332 TheSocialists:RedViennaandDemocraticGreaterGermany 335 TheCatholicsandtheImperialLegacy:EuropeanGreaterAustria 346 TheZionists:AnImperialMultinationalDreaminGermanAustria 355 LiberalInternationalismandtheImperialLegacy:TheFreemasonsand Paneuropa 358 ImperialNostalgiaandJewishCosmopolitanism 364 Conclusion:AustriansandJews–ImperialPeoples? 372 9 JacobtheJew:AntisemitismandtheEndofEmancipation, 1879–1935 375 LiberalProtestantism,Nationalism,andJewishDifference 378 HermannGunkel:OldTestamentCritiqueandtheJewishJacob 384 JewishGenerationalChange:FromCosmopolitantoEthnicJacob 393 SideliningJacob:LeoBaeck,HermannCohen,andLiberalJewish Apologetics 403 BeyondtheRabbis?WeimarandItsBible 407 BennoJacob:RabbinicJacobandtheEndofEmancipation 414
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