Background
Levine, Hillel was born on May 28, 1946 in Flushing, New York, United States. Son of Harold and Shirley (Peretz) Levine.
('The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of ...)
'The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions, ' with much of its concentration on the policies of banks and real estate interests on ethnic communities in the 1960s, should help fill in the time line and develop an focus on ethnic relations and urban affairs more in the social structural direction.
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(In this examination of the economic roots of antisemitism...)
In this examination of the economic roots of antisemitism, Hillel Levine traces the position of Jews in Poland from the end of the 16th century to the demise of the Polish state in 1795. Levine explains why Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic and political system at a time when Western European countries were rapidly evolving, and he shows that Jews were blamed for this failure to modernize, fueling an economic antisemitism that contributed to the Holocaust and is with us still. Levine examines various philosophical and socioeconomic theories that were inspired by Judaism, Christianty, scholasticism, the Reformation, Counter Reformation, and the Enlightenment and that encouraged or discouraged the quest for modernization. He demonstrates how these theories were either adapted or rejected by Poland, by Jews and by the West. He argues that, contrary to popular belief, Polish Jews were innovative and managerial and could have spurred trade and industry. They were instead channeled into equivocal enterprises such as the production and distribution of grain-based intoxicants. Levine explains how the painful awareness of backwardness that developed among Poles provided a new rhetoric for reform and a vocabulary that linked Poland's economic and political decline to the Jews, a convenient scapegoat. He concludes by assessing the dangers faced by ethnic minorities stemming from economic resentment and social change.
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Levine, Hillel was born on May 28, 1946 in Flushing, New York, United States. Son of Harold and Shirley (Peretz) Levine.
Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary America, 1967. Master of Arts, New School for Social Research, 1969. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.
Professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1974-1981; professor, Boston University, since 1981.
('The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of ...)
(In this examination of the economic roots of antisemitism...)
(In this exploration of the economic roots of anti-semitis...)
Member American Sociological Association, Association for Judaic Studies, Elizabethan Club, Harvard Club.
Married Shulamith Nebenzahl, February 3, 1977. Children: Hephzibah, Tiferet, Haninah.