The Jews – History, Memory & the Present: History, Memory and the Present (European Perspectives) - Hardcover

Vidal–naquet, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231102089 ISBN 13: 9780231102087

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Through this thorough history of the Jews, stretching as far back as the revolt against Roman rule in the second century BC, and moving forward through to the modern day, Vidal-Naquet aims to teach us that history and memory can and must be preserved for future generations.

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Review

"Vidal-Naquet discusses Josephus and the Jewish War as a critical historian. He is no less demanding and critical when he turns to the modern era, but this time he writes also as a historian personally involved in the historical process he analyzes." -- "New York Review of Books"

"A provocative look into the Jewish past and its contemporary relevance." -- "Jewish Book World"

"A significant contribution to the unending confrontation of history with mythology." -- "Forward"

"Vidal-Naquet focuses on the way history, especially as it relates to Jews, has been distorted by mainstream cultures through history. In shedding light on this, he rescues for us the golden thread of historical truth that unites us with our ancestors." -- "Jewish Chronicle"

"A provocative look into the Jewish past and its contemporary relevance." -- Jewish Book World

"A significant contribution to the unending confrontation of history with mythology." -- Forward

"Vidal-Naquet focuses on the way history, especially as it relates to Jews, has been distorted by mainstream cultures through history. In shedding light on this, he rescues for us the golden thread of historical truth that unites us with our ancestors." -- Jewish Chronicle

"Vidal-Naquet discusses Josephus and the Jewish War as a critical historian. He is no less demanding and critical when he turns to the modern era, but this time he writes also as a historian personally involved in the historical process he analyzes." -- New York Review of Books

"A provocative look into the Jewish past and its contemporary relevance." -- "Jewish Book World"

"A significant contribution to the unending confrontation of history with mythology." -- "Forward"

About the Author

Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books, including The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (both with Jean-Pierre Vernant) and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia).David Ames Curtis is a translator whose credits include works by Cornelius Castoriadis as well as Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Leveque's Cleisthenes the Athenian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231102089
• ISBN 13: 9780231102087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364