The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians

In this fascinating collection of writings, contemporary American and Israeli historians examine the ways earlier historians have framed, written, and "made" the Jewish past. The contributors offer new perspectives on various central figures of twentieth-century historiography, each of whom confronted the challenges posed by assimilation, anti- Semitism, and various forms of nationalism. Studies in Jewish Culture and Society, a series of the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania .