Ideas of Jewish History

Preface xi

Introduction

HELLENISM AND APOCALYPTICISM
II Maccabees 45
THE HISTORIAN OUTLINES HIS TASK 47
THE MIRACULOUS PUNISHMENT OF HELIODORUS 48
COM SPECIAL RELATION TO ISRAEL 50
Josephus Flavius 52
PREFACE TO THE JEWISH WAR 55
PREFACE TO THE JEWISH ANTTQUITIES 6o
The Dead Sea Sect
OF THE TWO SPIRITS IN MAN 66

THE MEDIEVAL JEW AND HISTORY
The Historical View of the Rabbis 71
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE 73
RASHI / CHRONOLOCY AND CHARACTER 76
Abraham ibn Daud / The Book of Tradition 78
THE RELIABILITY OF THE RABBINK TRANSMISSION 8o
THE UNBROKEN CHAIN 81


The Chronicle of Ahimaaz 83
RABBI SHEPHATIAH, DEFENDER OF NIS PEOPLE 85

The Crusade Chronicle of Solomon bar Simeon 91
MASSACRES 1N THE RHINELAND 93
THE MARTYRDOM OF R. KALONYMUS 99
THE MERIT OF THE MARTYRS 102

JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SIXTEENTH
AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

Samuel Usque / Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel 105
THE 1NQUISITION IN SPAIN, YEAR 5251 (1491) 107

Solomon ibn Verga / The Staff of Judah 110
WHY THE JEWS ARE HATED 112
THE CAUSES OF JEWISH SUFFERINC 113

Azariah dei Rossi / Líght to the Eyes 115
THE CNAT WHICH ENTERED TITUS' BRAIN 117

David Gans / Offspring of David 122
WHY A JEWISH CHRONICLE? 124
MOSES ISSERLES, SOLOMON LURIA, AND A PERSECUTION 127
THE BENEFITS OF STUDYING WORLD HISTORY 128
FOUR ITEMS WORTHY OF NOTE 131

Nathan Hannover / Deep Mire 133
JEWISH HISTORY AS PROPHECY FULFILLED 135

SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE JEWISH PAST
Immanuel Wolf 141
ON THE CONCEPT OF A SCIENCE OF JUDAISM 143

Leopold Zunz 156
THE SUFFERINC OF THE JEWS 158

Abraham Geiger 161
THE DEVELOPING IDEA OF JUDAISM 163
A HISTORY OF SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENTS 168
THE SOUL OF ISRAEL 170


ISAAC MARCUS JOST
The Rigors of Jewish Historiography 175

NAHMAN KROCHMAL
A Philosophy of Jewish History 189
ONLY AN HISTORICAL APPROACH CAN PRESERVE JUDAISM 191
THE NATIONS AND TIIEIR GODS 193
THE CYCLES OF JEWISH HISTORY 202
THE FIRST STACE OF 111E FIRST CYCLE 203
RENEWAL AFTER DECLINE 209
THE THIRD CYCLE 213

HEINRICH CRAETZ

Judaism Can Be Understood Only, Through Its History 217
The Miracle of Jewish Survival 228
The Diaspora / Suffering and Spirít 229
The Talmudic Period 233
Body and Soul 235
Debasement and Decadence 241

SIMON DUBNOW

An Essay in the Philosophy of History 247
THE RANGE OF JEWISH HISTORY 250
THE SICNIFICANCE OF JEWISH HISTORY 252
THE TEACHINGS OF JEWISII HISTORY 257

The Sociological View of Jewish History 259

ELDER I IISTORIANS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Yehezkel Kaufmann 273
ON THE FATE AND SURVIVAL OF THE JEWS 275


Ben Zion Dinur 284
ISRAEL IN THE DIASPORA 286
Raphael Mahler 299
THE MODERN ERA IN MARXIST•ZIONIST PERSPECTIVE 302

THREE DIASPORA CONCEPTIONS
Salo Baron / Jewish Society and Religion 319
EMANCIPATION FROM STATE AND TERRITORY 321
HISTORICAL LITERATURE 329
MENACE OF A NEW SCHISM 331
Ellis Rivkin 336
THE UNITY CONCEPT 338

Leo Baeck 343
THEOLOCY AND HISTORY 345

Sources 351
Suggestions for further reading 355
Index 359