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AJS Perspectives Travel Issue , 2022
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Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History issue18 / december 2020, 2020
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JQR 109.3, 2019
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The summer issue of JQR (109.3) trained its eye on Wissenschaft des Judentums (the early scholarly study of Judaism), but balanced a focus on Germany, the dominant interest of most discussions of Wissenschaft, with attention to a fascinating and influential player whose legacy has been resigned to the periphery: A. S. Yahuda. To get a sense of the many ways Yahuda alters perceptions of the history of our field, read the conversation below between Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez, two leading researchers on his fascinating work and life, and the organizers of this issue’s forum, and then read their pieces in the journal itself.
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Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press , 2019
Taking the paradigm of a bridging of "Orient" and "Occident" as a point of departure, this essay ... more Taking the paradigm of a bridging of "Orient" and "Occident" as a point of departure, this essay illustrated some of the ways in which Abraham Shalom Yahuda mediated this perceived divide, as he stood at the intersection of multiple and often conflicting scholarly and ideological movements and alliances, including Wissenschaft des Judentums, Sephardism, Zionism, and loyalty to the British Empire. Through discussion of his interactions with Jewish and Spanish scholars, leaders of the Zionist movement, and British colonial officials, this essay demonstrates how Yahuda profitably engaged in these relations, as he merged his sensibilities from the world of powerful Sephardi oligarchs in late Ottoman and early Mandatory Jerusalem and what has been rendered the "politics of notables" of the late Ottoman period with an Orientalist scholarly orientation. Yahuda's assimilation of the expectations others had projected onto him as a "good Oriental turned Occidental" shaped his self-fashioning, as it allowed him to fluidly move in and out of different milieux; yet this also complicates our understanding of his process of de-Orientalization to which others had alluded. I demonstrate that Yahuda was not "de-Orientalized" but was in fact very much caught up in the scholarly Orientalism and the ongoing imperial politics of his time. Ultimately he was unable to broker various imperial tensions and divides along the Oriental-Occidental axis.
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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) , 2019
"Editorial Introduction: On Horizontal Alliances, History and the Bonds of Community"
This piece ... more "Editorial Introduction: On Horizontal Alliances, History and the Bonds of Community"
This piece is part of the second installment of "Speaking Justice to Power: Local Pittsburgh Scholars Respond to the Tree of Life Shooting," a series edited by Heath Cabot and Michal Rose Friedman.
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Münchner Beiträge zur Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 5, Issue 2 2011): 41-58. , 2011
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HAMSA JOURNAL OF JUDAIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES (Inaugural Issue), May 2014
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Este artigo consiste numa breve exposição de iniciativas para reconstruir o passado jud... more Resumo:
Este artigo consiste numa breve exposição de iniciativas para reconstruir o passado judaico em Espanha de 1845 a 1935. Descreve o modo como esse passado se tornou central aos esforços de construção e reivindicação de uma pátria espanhola através da sua apropriação e integração na história oficial, ou história pátria. A construção desta história foi muito controversa, na medida em que historiadores e políticos trouxeram o passado judaico para os debates sobre reforma política, para discussões sobre identidade nacional e religiosa, e para a elaboração de diversos movimentos religiosos e culturais. Em todos estes contextos, as tentativas de reivindicar o passado judaico espanhol – por mais apaixonadas e comprometidas – permaneceram fraturadas e ambivalentes, fazendo com que esses esforços de “reconstruir” a “Espanha judaica” se revelassem tão parciais quanto comprometidos.
Palavras-chave: Espanha, história judaica, historiografia, história pátria, sefardismo, hispanidade
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This essay is a brief exposition of initiatives to reconstruct the Jewish past in Spain from 1845 to 1935. It describes the ways the Jewish past became central to efforts to construct and claim a
Spanish patria, through its appropriation and integration into official history, or historia patria. The construction of this history was highly contentious, as historians and politicians brought
Spain’s Jewish past to bear in debates over political reform, in discussions of religious and national identity, and in elaborating diverse political and cultural movements. In all of these
contexts, attempts to reclaim Spain’s Jewish past—however impassioned, and however committed—remained fractured and ambivalent, making such efforts to “reconstruct” ‘Jewish
Spain’ as partial as they were compromised.
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"Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism A Global History" Green, Abigail, Levis Sullam, Simon (eds). Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism, 2020
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of “Sepharad” to Spanish liberals and their Jewish inter... more This chapter demonstrates the centrality of “Sepharad” to Spanish liberals and their Jewish interlocutors in debates over religious tolerance, from the end of the Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. Such an examination illustrates how a case considered marginal might illuminate the dynamics of better known examples of the so-called “Jewish Question” in modern Europe, just as it undermines existing assumptions about the place of Jews in debates about race, hybridity and nationhood. By illustrating how the exceptional might be considered paradigmatic, the chapter highlights the surprising centrality of Spain in our study of Jewish modernity, as well as in the construction of religious and liberal political geographies in modern Europe.
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Dean P. Bell ed., The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography , 2018
In a recent lecture at Oxford University, prominent historian of modern French Jewish history Pie... more In a recent lecture at Oxford University, prominent historian of modern French Jewish history Pierre Birnbaum concluded, rather pessimistically, that the French project of Jewish assimilation and integration had essentially failed with the decline of a strong state, resulting in less Jewish participation in French politics, whether in parliament or public administration. Birnbaum views this process as precarious, suggesting that due to their decreased number, French Jews might progressively be seen by non-Jews as less French, and simultaneously as favoring a purported affiliation and loyalty to the State of Israel. 1 Leaving aside the question whether such a pessimistic view of current affairs is warranted, it is important to note that such a view is constructed, to a large extent, on the premise of an earlier and widely accepted deterministic model of the relationship between Jews and the modern nation-state. 2 In this context, Jews were not only examined through the lens of the exclusive centrality of the nation-state, rendering Jews as mainly passive actors fully dependent on its mandates and trajectory, but also disconnected from other horizontal relationships and alternate contemporaneous political designs.
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"Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era" (Daniela Flesler, Tabea Alexa Linhard, Adrián Pérez Melgosa eds.) , Feb 14, 2013
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America, 2017
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SEFARAD Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes
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The summer issue of JQR (109.3) trained its eye on Wissenschaft des Judentums (the early scholarly study of Judaism), but balanced a focus on Germany, the dominant interest of most discussions of Wissenschaft, with attention to a fascinating and influential player whose legacy has been resigned to the periphery: A. S. Yahuda. To get a sense of the many ways Yahuda alters perceptions of the history of our field, read the conversation below between Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez, two leading researchers on his fascinating work and life, and the organizers of this issue’s forum, and then read their pieces in the journal itself.
This piece is part of the second installment of "Speaking Justice to Power: Local Pittsburgh Scholars Respond to the Tree of Life Shooting," a series edited by Heath Cabot and Michal Rose Friedman.
Este artigo consiste numa breve exposição de iniciativas para reconstruir o passado judaico em Espanha de 1845 a 1935. Descreve o modo como esse passado se tornou central aos esforços de construção e reivindicação de uma pátria espanhola através da sua apropriação e integração na história oficial, ou história pátria. A construção desta história foi muito controversa, na medida em que historiadores e políticos trouxeram o passado judaico para os debates sobre reforma política, para discussões sobre identidade nacional e religiosa, e para a elaboração de diversos movimentos religiosos e culturais. Em todos estes contextos, as tentativas de reivindicar o passado judaico espanhol – por mais apaixonadas e comprometidas – permaneceram fraturadas e ambivalentes, fazendo com que esses esforços de “reconstruir” a “Espanha judaica” se revelassem tão parciais quanto comprometidos.
Palavras-chave: Espanha, história judaica, historiografia, história pátria, sefardismo, hispanidade
Abstract:
This essay is a brief exposition of initiatives to reconstruct the Jewish past in Spain from 1845 to 1935. It describes the ways the Jewish past became central to efforts to construct and claim a
Spanish patria, through its appropriation and integration into official history, or historia patria. The construction of this history was highly contentious, as historians and politicians brought
Spain’s Jewish past to bear in debates over political reform, in discussions of religious and national identity, and in elaborating diverse political and cultural movements. In all of these
contexts, attempts to reclaim Spain’s Jewish past—however impassioned, and however committed—remained fractured and ambivalent, making such efforts to “reconstruct” ‘Jewish
Spain’ as partial as they were compromised.
Book Chapters by Michal Friedman
Book Reviews by Michal Friedman
Papers by Michal Friedman
The summer issue of JQR (109.3) trained its eye on Wissenschaft des Judentums (the early scholarly study of Judaism), but balanced a focus on Germany, the dominant interest of most discussions of Wissenschaft, with attention to a fascinating and influential player whose legacy has been resigned to the periphery: A. S. Yahuda. To get a sense of the many ways Yahuda alters perceptions of the history of our field, read the conversation below between Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez, two leading researchers on his fascinating work and life, and the organizers of this issue’s forum, and then read their pieces in the journal itself.
This piece is part of the second installment of "Speaking Justice to Power: Local Pittsburgh Scholars Respond to the Tree of Life Shooting," a series edited by Heath Cabot and Michal Rose Friedman.
Este artigo consiste numa breve exposição de iniciativas para reconstruir o passado judaico em Espanha de 1845 a 1935. Descreve o modo como esse passado se tornou central aos esforços de construção e reivindicação de uma pátria espanhola através da sua apropriação e integração na história oficial, ou história pátria. A construção desta história foi muito controversa, na medida em que historiadores e políticos trouxeram o passado judaico para os debates sobre reforma política, para discussões sobre identidade nacional e religiosa, e para a elaboração de diversos movimentos religiosos e culturais. Em todos estes contextos, as tentativas de reivindicar o passado judaico espanhol – por mais apaixonadas e comprometidas – permaneceram fraturadas e ambivalentes, fazendo com que esses esforços de “reconstruir” a “Espanha judaica” se revelassem tão parciais quanto comprometidos.
Palavras-chave: Espanha, história judaica, historiografia, história pátria, sefardismo, hispanidade
Abstract:
This essay is a brief exposition of initiatives to reconstruct the Jewish past in Spain from 1845 to 1935. It describes the ways the Jewish past became central to efforts to construct and claim a
Spanish patria, through its appropriation and integration into official history, or historia patria. The construction of this history was highly contentious, as historians and politicians brought
Spain’s Jewish past to bear in debates over political reform, in discussions of religious and national identity, and in elaborating diverse political and cultural movements. In all of these
contexts, attempts to reclaim Spain’s Jewish past—however impassioned, and however committed—remained fractured and ambivalent, making such efforts to “reconstruct” ‘Jewish
Spain’ as partial as they were compromised.
El simposio está organizado por el grupo de investigación “Genealogías de Sefarad” y el Centro Sefarad-Israel, con la colaboración de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
http://www.sefarad-israel.es/Seminario_Genealogias_de_Sefarad
RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT (MEETING 1)
Sponsored by the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Deborah Hope Yalen (Colorado State University)
Discussants: Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College), Yitzhak Conforti (Bar-Ilan
University), Michal Friedman (Carnegie Mellon University), H. Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College), Katalin Franciska Rac (University of Florida), Dorothea M. Salzer (University of Potsdam), Mirjam Thulin (Leibniz Institute of European History)
This talk will broadly trace some of Abraham S. Yahuda’s Zionist activities, from his early participation in the World Zionist Organization and the relationships that surrounded it, to his affiliation and support of competing Zionist visions, including most significantly his relationship with Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement. Within this trajectory, we shall explore how the topic of Arab-Jewish coexistence figured into Yahuda’s multiple and often complex alignments with national, imperial, and non-Zionist regimes.