Galut

Yitshak Baer

1936

Chapter I. The Jewish Concept of History during Late Antiquity

The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish history. Political servitude and dispersion, the longing for liberation and reunion, sin and repentance and atonement: these are the larger elements…

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Yitshak Baer

1888–1980

The historian Yitshak Baer was born and educated in Germany in a modern Orthodox milieu. He was teaching at the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin when, in 1930, he was appointed to teach medieval Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Although he specialized in the history of medieval Spanish Jewry, he also wrote wide-ranging historiosophical essays, imbued with his conviction that the history of the Jews was not the history of a religion or an ethnic group but of a single, unified nation whose origins were in the Land of Israel. A theme running through both his archive-based monographs and his sweeping programmatic essays was the corrosive impact of diaspora life on Jewish religious faith and national pride.

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