The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present (REVIEW COPY)

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre; Curtis, David Ames (Translated and Edited by.) Berman, Paul (Foreword By.)

ISBN 10: 0231102097 / ISBN 13: 9780231102094

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1996

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The book has a musty smell. The half title pages has some pencil note markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present (REVIEW COPY)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231102097
• ISBN 13: 9780231102094
• Binding: Soft cover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaic

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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.