Simon Dubnow's “New Judaism”: Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews

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Notes

1. See, for example, Rabinovitch, Jews and Diaspora Nationalism; Karlip, The Tragedy of a Generation; and Shanes, Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia.

2. For a review of major new scholarship, see Moss, “At Home in Late Imperial Modernity.”

3. For example, Seltzer's assumption that ethnicities form ontological realities evolving into nations would benefit from engaging with the critical work of Rogers Brubaker (Ethnicity without Groups) and Jeremy King (Budweisers into Czechs and Germans). On Jewish diaspora nationalism, Seltzer added my own work to his bibliography, as well as that of Simon Rabinovitch, but doesn't engage with those arguments in the book itself. Other recent scholarship, such as Jess Olson's work on Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity and Joshua Karlip's work on twentieth-century Yiddishist diaspora nationalists, is not listed.