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1 online resource (254 pages)
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9780226842738
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Martin Buber's embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a wide audience. In Aesthetics of Renewal, Martina Urban closely analyzes Buber's writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber, Hasidic legends and teachings were not a static, canonical body of knowledge, but were dynamic and open to continuous reinterpretation. Urban argues that this representation of Hasidism was essential to the Zionist effort to restore a sense of unity across the Jewish diaspora as purely religious traditions weakened-and that Buber's anthologies in turn played a vital part in the broad movement to use cultural memory as a means to reconstruct a collective identity for Jews. As Urban unravels the rich layers of Buber's vision of Hasidism in this insightful book, he emerges as one of the preeminent thinkers on the place of religion in modern culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Buber's Hermeneutic Horizon -- 2 The Anthology and the Jewish Renaissance -- An Attempt at Definition -- Anthology as a Jewish Form -- The Jewish Library Reconfigured -- Buber's Anthologies and German Romantic Nationalism -- 3 Zionist Anthologies -- Moderate Modernism: Hayyim Nahman Bialik's "Ingathering" -- Between Eastern Hebrew Nationalism and Western Jewish Renewal -- Berdyczewski's Sefer Hasidim -- 4 In Search of Collaborators -- The Role of Marcus Ehrenpreis -- Micha Josef Berdyczewski: An Ambivalent Collaborator -- 5 The Galician Circle of Elusive Collaborators -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon: An Anthology Shelved -- Mordekhai Ben-Yehezkel: The Folklorist as Anthologist -- Samuel Abba Horodezky: A Silent Collaborator -- 6 Ahad Ha'am's Theory of Culture Revised -- Language and the Jewish Renaissance -- 7 Sprachkritik: The Crisis of Perception -- 8 Jewish Culture: Between Mystical Aesthetics and Lebensphilosophie -- Excursus on Ecstasy and Temporality -- 9 A Phenomenology of Hasidic Mysticism -- Preparing the Readers: Basic Religious Ideas -- Hitlahavut-On Ecstatic Immediacy -- 'Avodah-On Mystical Self-Sacrifice -- Kawwanah-On Redemptive Devotion -- Shiflut-On Relation -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Buber's Sources for Die Legende des Baalschem -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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ISBN 9780226842707
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226842707
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Print version Aesthetics of Renewal : Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik
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