What Are Jews For: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose
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What Are Jews For: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose
By (Author) Adam Sutcliffe
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
25th August 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
History of ideas
Social groups: religious groups and communities
296.3117
Physical Properties
Hardback
376
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and future What is the purpose of Jews in the world The Bible singles out the Jews as God's "chosen people," but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over th
Reviews
"Thoughtful and scholarly."---Abigail Green, Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Adam Sutcliffe is professor of European history at Kings College London. He is the author of Judaism and Enlightenment and the coeditor, most recently, of Philosemitism in History, The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Early Modern World, and History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present.
