The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

David Ames Curtis Pierre Vidal-Naquet

ISBN 10: 0231102097 / ISBN 13: 9780231102094

Published by Columbia University Press, 1998

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pp. 384 Revised ed. edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231102097
• ISBN 13: 9780231102094
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, and Marxism's difficulties with the Jewish question, to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it.

About the Author

Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books, including The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (both with Jean-Pierre Vernant) and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia).David Ames Curtis is a translator whose credits include works by Cornelius Castoriadis as well as Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Leveque's Cleisthenes the Athenian.