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The Jewish Question - (Historical Materialism) by Enzo Traverso (Paperback)

The Jewish Question - (Historical Materialism) by  Enzo Traverso (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>For figures ranging from Karl Marx to the luminaries of the Frankfurt School, the 'Jewish Question' -- a set of problems related to emancipation and anti-Semitism, cultural assimilation and Zionism -- raised significant controversies within Marxist theory. Renowned scholar Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs this intellectual debate that runs over more than a century, discussing both its generative aspects and its blind alleys. In <em>The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate</em>, Traverso explores the causes and the forms of the encounter that took place, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the Holocaust, between the intelligentsia of a cosmopolitan minority and the most radical ideological current of Western modernity.</p><p>This is the second edition, completely rewritten and updated, of a book already translated into many languages (originally published in French, then translated into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This is a rich, complex, fascinating, if at times difficult, intellectual history that brings to life an old debate that is still very topical and relevant today.<br /><strong>-Deborah Maccoby, <em>Jewish Voice for Labour</em></strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Enzo Traverso</strong> (1957) is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. He has taught in different countries and published many books, translated into a dozen languages, among which are <em>Fire and Blood: The European Civil War</em> (Verso, 2016) and <em>Left-Wing Melancholia</em> (Columbia University Press, 2017).</p>

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