Ebook: The Routledge companion to Jewish history and historiography

Part I. Jewish histories -- The biblical period: society, culture, and demographics -- The age of the Bible and ancient near East: intellectual developments and highlights -- Comparative topics and emerging trends in biblical studies -- Society, culture, and demography of the Jews and Judaism in late antiquity -- Politics and economics in the rabbinic period -- The rabbinic period: intellectual developments and highlights -- The rabbinic period: comparative topics and emerging trends -- The Middle Ages: society, culture, demography -- The Middle Ages: economics and politics -- Medieval intellectual developments and highlights -- Middle Ages: comparative topics and emerging trends -- Jewish demography, society, and community in the early modern period -- Early modern economics and politics -- Early modern religious and intellectual developments -- Early modern comparative topics and emerging trends -- Modernity: intellectual developments and highlights -- Modern Jewish society, politics, and culture -- Emerging and comparative trends in modern Jewish history: beyond exceptionalism -- Contemporary Jewish demography, society, and culture: secularization and its discontents -- A new moment in time: the unraveling of the contemporary Jewish civic enterprise-contexts and comparisons -- Contemporary Jewish politics and historiography: the case of the BDS movement -- Part II. Sources for Jewish history -- Archaeology, papyri, inscriptions -- Visual arts and Jewish historiography -- Material culture -- Rabbinic writings -- The sources of Jewish philosophy -- Polemics and apologetics -- The Genizah as a source for Jewish history -- Inquisition records -- Non-Jewish records -- Literature as a source for Jewish history -- Sermons -- Correspondence and letters -- Autobiographies and memoirs -- Memorybooks -- Jewish press and periodicals;Part III. Historiography -- Social and cultural history -- Sociology and demography in modern Jewish history: toward a unified history -- Women's and gender studies: historiographical trends -- Historical materialism and Marxist history -- Economic history -- Jewish politics: history and historiographical implications -- Zionism and new Israeli history -- Jewish history, intellectual history, and the history of ideas -- Postmodernism, Jewish history, and Jewish historiography -- Communications and media history -- Oral history: the case of Holocaust survivor testimonies -- Public history and Jewish history -- Part IV. Resources -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Index.;The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with the most central historiographical methods and issues and some of the core source materials used by scholars within the field. The field of Jewish history is profitably interdisciplinary. Drawing from the historical methods and themes employed in the study of various periods and geographical regions as well as from academic fields outside of history, it utilizes a broad range of source materials produced by Jews and non-Jews. It grapples with many issues that were core to Jewish life, culture, community, and identity in the past, while reflecting and addressing contemporary concerns and perspectives. Divided into four parts, this volume examines how Jewish history has engaged with and developed more general historiographical methods and considerations. Part I provides a general overview of Jewish history, while Parts II and III respectively address the rich sources and methodologies used to study Jewish history. Concluding in Part IV with a timeline, glossary, and index to help frame and connect the history, sources, and methodologies presented throughout, The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography is the perfect volume for anyone interested in Jewish history.