Malachi Haim HacohenCambridge University Press, 1/10/2019EAN 9781316649848, ISBN10: 1316649849Paperback, 585 pages, 22.7 x 15.2 x 3.2 cmLanguage: EnglishJacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures.List of figuresAcknowledgmentsA note on transliteration from Hebrew to EnglishIntroductionJewish European history1. Writing Jewish European history2. Rabbinic Jacob and Esau, Pagan Rome, and the Christian Empire3. Esau, Ishmael, and Christian EuropeMedieval Edom4. Waning Edom? Early Modern Christian-Jewish Hybridities5. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, I1789–18396. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, II1840–18787. The Austrian Jewish Intelligentsia between empire and nation, 1879–19188. Imperial peoples in an ethnonational age? Jews and other Austrians in the First Republic, 1918–19389. Jacob the JewAntisemitism and the end of emancipation, 1879–193510. Esau the GoyJewish and German ethnic myths, 1891–194511. Typology and the HolocaustErich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe12. Postwar EuropeAustria, the Congress for cultural freedom, and the internationalization of European culture13. A post-Holocaust breakthrough? Jacob and Esau todayEpiloguethe end of postwar exceptionalism.
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