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Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Sarah Stein; Sarah Stein
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: Academic Research; History; Theory; International Relations
Type: Report
Abstract:
The author reviews the ways in which the academic study of Jewish populations overlaps, or should overlap, with the study of the phenomenon of empire. Some promising lines of inquiry are impeded, the author explains, by a myth of Jewish powerlessness, and others by a (faulty) assumption that contiguous empires cannot be compared with transcontinental empires. The author traces these ideas through many examples of modern scholarship in these areas.