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Time, Memory, and Historical Consciousness
in the Jewish Tradition
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details
An
anthropological perspective on such key aspects of Jewish culture as biblical
memory; traditional Jewish concepts of time; timeless images of the Promised
Land; language as a metaphor for history; contemporary Jewish preoccupations
with 'continuity' and 'survivalism'; and the memory of the Holocaust and
of the Jewish past in Poland. A fascinating exposition of the enigmatic
character of Jewish historical consciousness, of 'history' as a new Jewish
religion, and what this implies for understanding the contemporary Jewish
world.
Jonathan Webber is Fellow in Jewish Social Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, and editor of JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. He has two other books with the Littman Library: Jewish Identities in the New Europe (1994), and Traces of Memory: The Ruins of Jewish Civilization in Polish Galicia, in collaboration with photographer Chris Schwarz (forthcoming).
| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 208 pages, 16 pages plates |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-57-0 |
| Price | £24.95 / $37.50 |
| Date of publication | January 2011 |
© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008