Abstract
This chapter tells the story of the single volume of the Jewish Yearbook of International Law ever published. Following a survey of existing works on what may be termed the Jewish international law habitus, the chapter seeks to address two understudied questions: the question of knowledge, its forms and its processes; and the matter of time: non-sovereign, sovereign and, especially, almost- or newly-sovereign. Implicit in both themes—knowledge and time—is another crucial aspect of that habitus pervading the story of the Jewish Yearbook: a heightened tension between the particular and the universal.
To examine knowledge and time, and how both were shaped by the particular-universal tension, this chapter first examines the Yearbook’s likely origins. It then turns to the question of knowledge, its curation, presentation, and circulation. Here the chapter traces the editors’ choice of the yearbook genre or form. The chapter proceeds to explore their decision to launch a ‘Jewish’ yearbook—and examine the implications for the type, scope and character of knowledge the Yearbook was to reposit. On that basis, I briefly reflect on the communities of knowledge—and, relatedly, the functions—the yearbook was meant to serve. The chapter concludes by narrating the effect time had on the editor’s intentions, the knowledge they presented in the Yearbook’s first volume, and the fate of the Jewish Yearbook itself.
To examine knowledge and time, and how both were shaped by the particular-universal tension, this chapter first examines the Yearbook’s likely origins. It then turns to the question of knowledge, its curation, presentation, and circulation. Here the chapter traces the editors’ choice of the yearbook genre or form. The chapter proceeds to explore their decision to launch a ‘Jewish’ yearbook—and examine the implications for the type, scope and character of knowledge the Yearbook was to reposit. On that basis, I briefly reflect on the communities of knowledge—and, relatedly, the functions—the yearbook was meant to serve. The chapter concludes by narrating the effect time had on the editor’s intentions, the knowledge they presented in the Yearbook’s first volume, and the fate of the Jewish Yearbook itself.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Journals of International Law |
| Editors | Inge van Hulle, Carl Landauer |
| Place of Publication | The Netherlands |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Publication status | Submitted - 29 May 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | Brill Studies in the History of International Law |
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Keywords
- Internation legal history
- international law yearbooks
- Modern Jewish History
- Nathan Feinberg
- Jacob Stoyanovsky