Format:
VIII, 237 S
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0812237420
Series Statement:
Jewish culture and contexts
Content:
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
Note:
Papers delivered at a symposium of a seminar at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, 1999. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Keywords:
al- Andalus
;
Hebräisch
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Haskala
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Geistesgeschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
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