Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History

David Myers' book explores a fascinating and untold chapter in modern Jewish intellectual the role of the first generation of Jewish scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in establishing Jewish studies within the framework of a Jewish national university. Committed torewriting Jewish history according to Zionist standards, these "Jerusalem scholars" richly reflect the tensions that attended their dual allegiances, to both Zionism and the discipline of history.