Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity » (1)

Mitchell B. Hart is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish and European History at Florida International University.

This book answers the questions: Why did the social sciences become an integral part of Jewish scholarship beginning in the late 19th century? What part did this scholarship play in the debate over emancipation and assimilation, Zionism and diasporism, the nature of Jewish identity, and the problem of Jewish continuity and survival?