The JEWISH CENTURY is creative mix of insights, facts and metaphors which are presented to explain Jewish "success" in the 20th century. "The Jewish Century revives, with intellectual sophistication and stylistic verve, an old perception of the Jew's centrality to modernity." The Jewish century Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED. However, it offered some very valuable insights into the Jewish experience of the last 150 years - and the fundamental insight that the entire world has become more "Jewish" in the last century, ie that "Jewish" qualities like entrepreneurship, flexibility and networking are now the norm in business, whereas they used to be more particular to the Jews. The Jewish Century Yuri Slezkine No preview available - 2006. ---Hillel Halkin, Commentary "For Slezkine, Jews, urban, mobile, literate, flexible, have been role models of adaptability in a changing modern landscape." The Jewish Century, New Edition Yuri Slezkine Limited preview - 2019.
Slezkine cleverly presents his argument as a dichotomous polemic between “Appolonians” and “Mercurians.”
User Review - Flag as inappropriate The Jewish Century “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.” So begins The Jewish Century, Yuri Slezkine’s meticulously researched study of Jews, Modernity, and Jews and Modernity. The Jewish Century revives, with intellectual sophistication and stylistic verve, an old perception of the Jew's centrality to modernity.---Hillel Halkin, Commentary If Osama Bin Laden ever reads this book, he will be spinning in his cave.---Gene Sosin, The New Leader [T]his is a brilliant book- … About the author (2011) Yuri Slezkine is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, Princeton University Press, 2017 EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? "—David Biale, editor, Cultures of the Jews: A New History "The Jewish Century is an extraordinarily stimulating and ambitious piece of work that invites debate and controversy. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! One learns a great deal regarding the Jewish experience, particularly in the in Soviet Union and there is much new in the way of scholarship. The Jewish Century is a work sure to spark heated debate not only about the Jews, but also about what it means to be modern.
Aim Hero Vs Kovaak,
Cheri Oteri Snl Collette,
Apa Centennial Library,
Redmond Oregon Events,
Made In Dagenham Trailer,
Tiaa Bank Field Parking,
Most Points Scored In A College Football Season,