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Title

Jewish historiography between past and future : 200 years of Wissenschaft des Judentums / edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, and Guy Miron.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Livné-Freudenthal, Rachel, 1940-
• Mendes-Flohr, Paul R.,
• Miron, Gai,

Description

vi, 215 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth and twentieth century Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, Germ Wissenschaft des Judentums had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraged mutual understanding and respect. The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, organized by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, by scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understanding but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.

Series Statement

Studia Judaica, 0585-5306 ; Band 102

Uniform Title

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 102.

Alternative Title

200 years of Wissenschaft des Judentums

Subject

• Jews > Historiography
• Judaism > Historiography
• Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement)

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- Rabbinic antecedents and parallels to Wissenschaft des Judentums / Jay R. Berkovitz -- Acknowledging the past and envisioning the future: the founders of Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) / Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal -- "A Jewish Philosophy": on the background of Leopold Zunz's historical definition / Giuseppe Veltri -- The intellectual networks of Rabbi Marco Mortara (1815-1894): an Italian "Wissenschftler des Judentums" / Asher Salah -- Abraham Berliner and the making of orthodox Wissenschaft des Judentums / Yedidya Asaf -- Wiseenschaft des Judentums, post modernism, and digital humanities 2.0 / Nils Roemer -- History, science, and social consciousness in the German Jewish public discourse during the first years of the Nazi regime / Guy Miron -- A voyage in the enchanted house: a family history from the personal perspective (In memoriam Walter Schmidt 1889-1961) / Christoph Schmidt -- Wissenschft des Judentums at the Fin-de-Siècle / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- Ludwig Philippson on biblical monotheism: Jewish religious philosophy between Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen / George Y. Kohler -- Jewish Studies / Martin Buber.

Call Number

JFE 19-9805

ISBN

• 3110553546
• 9783110554618 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110553697 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019939559