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Haredi Counter History: Some Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Nahum Karlinsky; Nahum Karlinsky
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring 2008, pp.26-28.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Social conditions (History)
Keywords: Orthodox Judaism; History; Literature; Culture
Type: Report
Abstract:
The author discusses Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) historiographical literature, in which modern historical writing techniques are coupled with an anti-modern value system and juxtaposed with hagiographical miracle tales to create multifaceted works containing both scholarship and fundamentalism. The author examines the 1902 work "Beit Rabi" by Hayyim Meir Heilman to illustrate his understanding of the genre.