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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. The Jews in Early Modern Central and Western Europe -- 2. Polish Jewry to the Partitions -- 3. The Jews in Imperial Russia -- 4. Soviet Jewry -- 5. The Jews of Austria-Hungary -- 6. The Jews of North Africa and the Middle East -- 7. American Jewish History -- 8. Jews in Commonwealth Countries -- 9. Israeli Society and Culture -- 10. Latin American Jewry -- 11. The Traditional Jewish Community -- 12. Jewish Emancipation -- 13. Secular Jewish Culture -- 14. Modern Jewish Social History -- 15. The Mass Migration of East European Jews -- 16. Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Responses -- 17. The Holocaust -- 18. Hasidism and Its Opponents -- 19. Religious Movements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe -- 20. Modern Jewish Religious Movements -- 21. Modern Jewish Politics -- 22. Zionist Ideology -- 23. Religious Culture and Politics in Israel -- 24. Modern Jewish Literature -- 25. Jewish Art in the Modern Era -- 26. Jewish Music in the Modern Era -- 27. Modern Jewish Thought -- 28. Modern Jewish Demography -- 29. American and Canadian Jewish Sociology -- An Annotated Guide to Major Reference Works -- 1. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 2. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 3. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 4. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 5. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 6. The Modern Jewish Experience -- Index of Authors

From the foreword:''The 'clash of civilizations' thesis is a gimmick, like 'The War of the Worlds, ' better for reinforcing defensive self-pride than for critical understanding of the bewildering interdependence of our time. This book, in focusing on the self and the other in Jewish and Muslim thought, is an attempt in this direction.

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Expositive ; Community College, Higher Education ; http://www.ogtp-cart.com/product.aspx?ISBN=9781616101084 ; Narrative text, Textbook ; http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/file/8d29a37b-10ae-a045-5769-ee79b139dcb3/1/Bunzl,9781616101084.pdf

From the foreword:''The 'clash of civilizations' thesis is a gimmick, like 'The War of the Worlds,' better for reinforcing defensive self-pride than for critical understanding of the bewildering interdependence of our time. This book, in focusing on the 'self' and the 'other' in Jewish and Muslim thought, is an attempt in this direction

This book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Lived religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class Jewish family celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah in Berlin as the turmoil of war, collapsing empires, and modern urban life gave rise to the Nazi regime that would destroy most of Europe's Jews, including Benjamin himself. Documenting the vitality and diversity of religious life that surrounded Benjamin in Germany, France, and beyond, Brian Britt shows the extent to which religious communities and traditions, especially those of Christians, influenced his work. Britt surveys and analyzes the intellectual, cultural, and social contexts of religion in Benjamin's world and broadens the religious frame around discussions of his work to include lived religion-the daily practices of ordinary people. Seeing religion around Benjamin requires looking at forms of life and institutions that he rarely discussed. As Britt shows, dramatic changes in religious practices, particularly in Berlin, reflected broader political and cultural currents that would soon transform the lives of all Europeans.An original perspective on the religious context of a thinker who habitually raised questions about the survival of religion in modernity, Religion Around Walter Benjamin contributes to wider discussions of religious tradition and secular modernity in religious and cultural studies. It provides a foundational overview and introduction to the context of Benjamin's writing that will be appreciated by scholars and students alike