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A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe 16:1 © 2010 by Duke University Press would define the Israeli collective psyche, yet very little of what Schantz describes as occurring in American culture after the Civil War is apparent in the current mood of my country. Obviously, the passing of almost 150 years since the Civil War defeats any attempt to establish parallels. At least in the West, to which the dominant culture of Israel still belongs, it appears that the way in which people view death and life has changed dramatically in that time. But there is also a perhaps-underestimated religious difference between the attitudes of Christians and Jews toward war and death. We sometimes speak now of Judeo-Christian morality or even culture, and Judaism, like Christianity, involves a belief in afterlife existence and the rising of the dead at the end of days. Still, for Jews that is a much more abstract notion than the “comforting and compelling vision of eternal life” that Schantz describes as prevalent in nineteenth-century America. Ezekiel 37:1 – 14, the most famous prophecy in the Hebrew Bible of the rising of the dead, imagines it as a clattering assembly of dry bones. And for most Jews, the life after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

Freund, Elizabeth
Common Knowledge , Volume 16 (1) – Jan 1, 2010
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press
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0961-754X
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10.1215/0961754x-2009-075
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16:1 © 2010 by Duke University Press would define the Israeli collective psyche, yet very little of what Schantz describes as occurring in American culture after the Civil War is apparent in the current mood of my country. Obviously, the passing of almost 150 years since the Civil War defeats any attempt to establish parallels. At least in the West, to which the dominant culture of Israel still belongs, it appears that the way in which people view death and life has changed dramatically in that time. But there is also a perhaps-underestimated religious difference between the attitudes of Christians and Jews toward war and death. We sometimes speak now of Judeo-Christian morality or even culture, and Judaism, like Christianity, involves a belief in afterlife existence and the rising of the dead at the end of days. Still, for Jews that is a much more abstract notion than the “comforting and compelling vision of eternal life” that Schantz describes as prevalent in nineteenth-century America. Ezekiel 37:1 – 14, the most famous prophecy in the Hebrew Bible of the rising of the dead, imagines it as a clattering assembly of dry bones. And for most Jews, the life after

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

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