I keep the English and Yiddish versions of Graetz on the shelf as
collector's items. They serve as documents to understand how history was
written in the late 19th century. The book is probably more important as
an artifact than the narrative content. Sometimes I use examples from it
as how one
Interesting to hear these assessments. We were just looking at Baron's
history and reviews compared it favorably to Graetz, noting the latter's
"lachrymose" approach to Jewish history. I'm wondering now whether we
should keep the Graetz Popular History, which is apparently based on the
earlier f
Well said. Not just that, its faults withstanding, the English translation is
inferior in every way to the foreign language editions.
Ronald Z. Schwartz
> On February 22, 2018 at 9:39 PM Benjamin Ravid wrote:
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> Dear Zilvinas.
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> I hesitate to step in here but if you wish to have G
Dear Zilvinas.
I hesitate to step in here but if you wish to have Graetz for
historiographical reasons, excellent; he is very important for that reason.
However, if you wish to use it as a source for Jewish history and thought,
it is well over a hundred years out of date (the English is translate
How much would it be to ship to Lithuania?
Zilvinas
> On 2018-02-22, at 09:39, Lee Jaffe wrote:
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> Free to another AJL library (for the cost of shipping):
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> Heinrich Graetz's History of the Jews, 6 vols.
> Jewish Publication Society of America, 1939
>
> In good condition (ex libris).
>
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