The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora

For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora. Dedicated to the study of transnational peoples and the linkages these people forged among themselves over the course of their wanderings and in the multiple places to which they went, the
term "diaspora" reflects the increasing interest in migrations, trauma, globalism, and community formations.

The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora acts as a comprehensive collection of scholarship that reflects the multifaceted nature of diaspora studies. Persecuted and exiled throughout their history, the Jewish people have also left familiar places to find better opportunities in new ones. But their
history has consistently been defined by their permanent lack of belonging. This Oxford Handbook explores the complicated nature of diasporic Jewish life as something both destructive and generative. Contributors explore subjects as diverse as biblical and medieval representations of diaspora, the
various diaspora communities that emerged across the globe, the contradictory relationship the diaspora bears to Israel, and how the diaspora is celebrated and debated within modern Jewish thought. What these essays share is a commitment to untangling the legacy of the diaspora on Jewish life and
culture.

This volume portrays the Jewish diaspora not as a simple, unified front, but as a population characterized by conflicting impulses and ideas. The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora captures the complexity of the Jewish diaspora by acknowledging the tensions inherent in a group of people defined
by trauma and exile as well as by voluntary migrations to places with greater opportunity.


Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/03/2021
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 7.10h x 10.00w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780190240943

About the Author

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books on Jewish history, as well women's history, the history of immigration to the United States, and food history. She directs the Goldstein-Goren Center for American
Jewish History at NYU.