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Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
Jacques Picard
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Description for Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
Hardback. Editor(s): Picard, Jacques L.; Revel, Jacques; Steinberg, Michael P.; Zertal, Idith. Num Pages: 600 pages, 43 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers of Jewish Modernity features entries on political figures such as Walther Rathenau, Rosa Luxemburg, and David Ben-Gurion; philosophers and critics such as Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler; and artists such as Mark Rothko. The book provides fresh insights into the lives and careers of novelists like Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth; the ... Read more
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers of Jewish Modernity features entries on political figures such as Walther Rathenau, Rosa Luxemburg, and David Ben-Gurion; philosophers and critics such as Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler; and artists such as Mark Rothko. The book provides fresh insights into the lives and careers of novelists like Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth; the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691164236
SKU
V9780691164236
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About Jacques Picard
Jacques Picard is professor of modern and Jewish history and cultures at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Jacques Revel is a cultural historian and former president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Michael P. Steinberg is vice provost for the arts, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council The editors of [Makers of Jewish Modernity] exceed their stated goal of showing how various Jewish public figures 'transformed the 20th century,' through 43 profiles of subjects both expected ... and surprising... The entries, which assume no prior knowledge, convey a great deal of ... Read more