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Renewing the past, reconfiguring Jewish culture : from al-Andalus to the Haskalah

Title
Renewing the past, reconfiguring Jewish culture : from al-Andalus to the Haskalah / edited by Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Brann, Ross, 1949-
  • Sutcliffe, Adam.
  • University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Description
viii, 237 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Jewish culture and contexts
Subjects
Note
  • Papers delivered at a symposium of a seminar at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Al-Anadalus, enlightenment, and the renewal of the Jewish past / Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann -- Aesthetic models in conflict: classicist versus ornamental in Jewish poetics / Joseph Yahalom -- The uses of Exile in poetic dicourse: some examples from medieval Hebrew literature / Esperanza Alfonso -- Their rose in our garden: romance elements in Hebrew Italian poetry / Dvora Bregman -- The crisis of medieval knowledge in the work of the fifteenth-century poet and philosopher Moses da Rieti / Alessandro Guetta -- Judah Halevi's Kuzari in the Haskalah: the reinterpretation and reimaging of a medieval work / Adam Shear -- The aesthetic difference: Moses Mendelssohn's Kohelet Musar and the inception of the Berlin Haskalah / Jonathan Karp -- Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais's program of Sephardi rabbinic humanism in Victorian America / Arthur Kiron -- Solomon Maimon and his Jewish philosophical predecessors: the evidence of his autobiography / Allan Arkush -- Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn and the fashioning of Jewish philosophical heroism / Adam Sutcliffe -- Strategic friendships: Jewish intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire, and the French revolution / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Hine and Haggadah: history, narration, and tradition in the age of Wissenschaft des Judentums / Jonathan Skolnik.
Call Number
*PXE 05-1122
ISBN
0812237420 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003061366
OCLC
53069220
Title
Renewing the past, reconfiguring Jewish culture : from al-Andalus to the Haskalah / edited by Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
Series
Jewish culture and contexts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Brann, Ross, 1949-
Sutcliffe, Adam.
University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Research Call Number
*PXE 05-1122
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