- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
-
Part I The First Mirror -
1 Waking the Dead—Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar -
2 Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World -
3 Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past -
4 ‘Greek Wisdom’ as Secular Knowledge and Science -
5 Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture -
6 The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity -
7 Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities -
8 Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts -
Part II The Second Mirror -
9 The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror -
10 Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter -
11 Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages -
Part III Athens in Jerusalem -
12 Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past -
13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism -
14 The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture -
15 A ‘Polis’ in Jerusalem: The Jewish State -
16 The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality - Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Bibliography
- Index
The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism
The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism
- Chapter:
- (p.381) 13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism
- Source:
- Athens in Jerusalem
- Author(s):
Yaacov Shavit
, Chaya Naor, Niki Werner- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter considers what the Jewish people are and how they have come to their own identity and history following the new historical consciousness. In the nineteenth century, race became vitally important, and an ethnocentric dogma based on a naturally determined biology became widespread in Europe. As a result, any ethnic elements that could be uncovered in the Jewish literary tradition were intensified. From a Western point of view, the antinomy between Jews and Europeans was also based on a racial division. This racial division became, in the course of the nineteenth century, a standard fixture of the intelligent and educated Jew. In this manner, nation was associated with race in the Jewish conceptual world. Race was perceived as being parallel to nation, or as endowing the nation with greater immanent historical depth.
Keywords: Jewish people, racial divisions, ethnic stereotypes, nationhood, national identity, race, nationalism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
-
Part I The First Mirror -
1 Waking the Dead—Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar -
2 Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World -
3 Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past -
4 ‘Greek Wisdom’ as Secular Knowledge and Science -
5 Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture -
6 The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity -
7 Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities -
8 Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts -
Part II The Second Mirror -
9 The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror -
10 Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter -
11 Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages -
Part III Athens in Jerusalem -
12 Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past -
13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism -
14 The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture -
15 A ‘Polis’ in Jerusalem: The Jewish State -
16 The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality - Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
- Bibliography
- Index
