Re: [ha-Safran] Graetz's History of the Jews available

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

Re: [ha-Safran] Graetz's History of the Jews available

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

Re: [ha-Safran] Graetz's History of the Jews available

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: > > Dear Zilvinas. > > I hesitate to step in here but

Re: [ha-Safran] Graetz's History of the Jews available

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 However, if you wish to use it as a source for Jewish history and thought, it is well over a hundred years out of date (the English is

Re: [ha-Safran] Graetz's History of the Jews available

How much would it be to ship to Lithuania? Zilvinas > On 2018-02-22, at 09:39, Lee Jaffe wrote: > > Free to another AJL library (for the cost of shipping): > > Heinrich Graetz's History of the Jews, 6 vols. > Jewish Publication Society of America, 1939 > > In good