ISBN:
9781951498924
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9781951498917
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1951498925
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 228 pages
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24 cm
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Brown Judaic Studies number 371
DDC:
296.092
Keywords:
Jellinek, Adolph
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Jellinek, Adolph - 1821-1893
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Rabbis Biography
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Rabbis
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Biographies
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Austria - Vienna
Abstract:
Adolf Jellinek (1821-1893), the Czech-born, German-educated, liberal chief rabbi of Vienna, was the most famous Jewish preacher in Central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. As an innovative rhetorician, Jellinek helped mold and define the modern synagogue sermon into an instrument for expressing Jewish religious and ethical values for a new era. As a historian, Jellinek made groundbreaking contributions to the study of the Zohar and medieval Jewish mysticism. The Formation of a Modern Rabbi discusses the ways in which Jellinek was emblematic of a new synagogue-based model of rabbi-as-scholar-preacher and returns Jellinek to the center of the Jewish nineteenth century-a world in which the role of rabbi, synagogue, and Jewish studies was being reinvented and renewed. --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224) and index
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Note on Place-Names and Translations
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On the Threshold of Modernity: Jellinek's Early Years
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Town and Gown: Jewish Leipzig and the Wissenschaft des Judentums
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Breakthroughs in Scholarship: Jellinek's Studies on Kabbalah
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Attraction to Rabbinic Innovation: Jellinek and Midrash
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Divided Loyalties: Jellinek between Scholarship and Communal Leadership
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A New Synagogue for a New Suburb: Jellinek in Vienna's Leopoldstadt
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Tradition and Change in the Rabbinic Persona: Jellinek's Context and Innovations in Vienna
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Major Themes in Jellinek's Sermons
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Jellinek's Sermons: Justice, Care of the Stranger, and Ethical Universalism
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Conclusion
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Selected Bibliography of the Works of Adolf Jellinek.
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