Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300218572)

Vendor: Robert Chazan
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Format: Hardcover
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Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement

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Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees​

For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained by pre-modern Jews and Christians as divine punishment, by some modern non-Jews as the result of Jewish harmfulness, by some modern Jews as fostered by Christian anti-Jewish imagery, and by other modern Jews as caused by misguided Jewish acceptance of minority status.

In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various perspectives and argues that pre-modern Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a sense among Jews that there were alternatives available for making a better life elsewhere.

Author: Robert Chazan
ISBN-10: 0300218575
ISBN-13: 9780300218572
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019
By Robert Chazan
By Robert Chazan
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Robert Chazan is S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Modern Jewish History and professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism: Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History.

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