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(DE-602)gbv_813567203
Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 380 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
081433993X
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9780814339930
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Modernity through the Eyes of Its Chroniclers: The Scholar as Interpreter and Shaper of Modern Jewish Life -- Part 1. Perspectives on a Scholar of Modern Jewish History -- 1. Michael A. Meyer: An Appreciation -- 2. Michael A. Meyer and His Vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform Rabbinate: A Lifetime of Devotion and Concern -- Part 2. Between Tradition and Modernity -- 3. Michael A. Meyer's Periodization of Modern Jewish History: Revisiting a Seminal Essay -- 4. When Does the Modern Period of the Jewish Calendar Begin? -- 5. The Controversy over the Salvation of the Jews, Turks, and Heathens in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Theological Path to Tolerance? -- 6. The Merchant of Venice and the Theological Construction of Christian Europe -- 7. Toward the Popular Religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew Texts on Sex and Circumcision -- Part 3. The Construction of Modern Jewish History -- 8. Analyzing the Zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as Historian of the Modern Era -- 9. German Historians and the Jews -- 10. The "Return of the Jews to History": Considerations about an Ideological Concept -- 11. Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab Question: A Prescient Gaze into the "New History" -- 12. Jewish Religion and Capitalism -- Part 4. Jewish Communitities Negotiating Modernity -- 13. The Mystical World of Colonial American Jews -- 14. Public Faith and Private Virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites -- 15. Gender, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity in the Fin de Siècle -- 16. Apprenticeships in Work and Love: Jewish Youth Growing Up in Imperial Germany -- 17. Lukewarm Establishment or Militant Religious Ideology? German Liberal Judaism in the 1920s -- Part 5. The Evolving Legacy of Moses Mendelssohn -- 18. Moses Mendelssohn's Dreams and Nightmares.
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Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. StraussMichael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch -- Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson -- Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman -- When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach -- The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg -- The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel -- Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski -- Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann -- German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer -- The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel -- Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers -- Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai -- The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman -- Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman -- Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein -- Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner -- The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner -- Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy -- Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen -- From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band -- Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz -- Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.
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Electronic reproduction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814333958
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814333952
Additional Edition:
Print version Mediating modernity
Language:
English
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