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Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (Studies in Jewish History)
Reinventing the Jewish Past European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History - Studies in Jewish History Author:David N. Myers This book explores a fascinating and untold chapter in modern Jewish intellectual history: the role of the first generation of Jewish scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in establishing Jewish studies within the framework of a Jewish national university. David Myers illuminates the manifold tensions present as this generation of Europ... more »ean-born scholars set out to rewrite the Jewish past along Zionist lines.« less