Abstract
This chapter emphasizes how 80 per cent of world Jewry who lived in Poland and Lithuania during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had to de-Westernize and 'de-teleologize' the modern period in Jewish history. It defines the modern era that span the last several hundred years. It also cites the critiques of the anti-essentialists and the vitality of contemporary Jewishness that was embodied in the “magmatic” level of Jewish experience and was somehow beneath or beyond cultural, religious, and political change'. The chapter discusses the source of the inner core of Jewish identity as a continuing positive self-evaluation of Jews that derives from eastern European Jewry. It contends that the criteria for dividing Jewish history into periods should be drawn from majority of the Jewish experience itself.
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