Jacob & Esau : Jewish European history between nation and empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hacohen, Malachi Haim, 1957- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History. Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History. Jews > Europe > History. Europe > Ethnic relations > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of figures; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration from Hebrew to English; Introduction: Jewish European history; 1. Writing Jewish European history; 2. Rabbinic Jacob and Esau, Pagan Rome, and the Christian Empire; 3. Esau, Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom; 4. Waning Edom? Early Modern Christian-Jewish Hybridities; 5. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, I: 1789-1839; 6. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, II: 1840-1878; 7. The Austrian Jewish Intelligentsia between empire and nation, 1879-1918; 8. Imperial peoples in an ethnonational age? Jews and other Austrians in the First Republic, 1918-1938; 9. Jacob the Jew: Antisemitism and the end of emancipation, 1879-1935; 10. Esau the Goy: Jewish and German ethnic myths, 1891-1945; 11. Typology and the Holocaust: Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe; 12. Postwar Europe: Austria, the Congress for cultural freedom, and the internationalization of European culture; 13. A post-Holocaust breakthrough? Jacob and Esau today; Epilogue: the end of postwar exceptionalism.