Embracing exile : the case for Jewish diaspora /

"Embracing Exile is a comprehensive history of Jewish responses to and conceptions of their exiles/diasporas. Jews have, since their beginnings, been a wandering people. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan to Egypt and then back to Canaan. From there, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kraemer, David Charles (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Jewish diaspora. Jews > Identity. Diaspora juive. Juifs > Identité. Jewish. Judaism. RELIGION. History. Sacred Writings. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The lay of the land
Biblical explanations of exile
Biblical narratives of diaspora
Zion in Babylon
Medieval Jewish teachings on exile
Exile, the Jewish mystical tradition, and the Sephardi diaspora
The great theorizer of diaspora : the Maharal of Prague
Hasidism and the Eastern European diaspora
Haskalah, reform, and early Zionism
Modern Jews on diaspora
Exiles and their diasporas : the lessons of the Jews.