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The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise / Michah Gottlieb

Gottlieb, Michah [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York : Oxford University Press [[2021]], [2021]

X, 462 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage SSG). UB Tübingen

Erscheint auch als: The Jewish reformation / Michah Gottlieb (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-933638-8 (hardback)

978-0-19-933640-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020037504

OCoLC: 1241165629     

AN 19340      Ähnliche Literatur

BS941

221.5/310943

SSG-Nummer(n): 1

* Mendelssohn, Moses [1729-1786] ; Zunz, Leopold [1794-1886] ; Hirsch, Samson Raphael [1808-1888] ; Philippson, Ludwig [1811-1889] ; Bibel. Altes Testament ; Übersetzung ; Deutsch ; Reformjudentum ; Orthodoxes Judentum ; Kontroverse      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Mendelssohn, Moses -- 1729-1786 ; Zunz, Leopold -- 1794-1886 ; Hirsch, Samson Raphael -- 1808-1888 ; Bible -- Old Testament -- German -- Versions ; Bible -- Old Testament -- Versions, Jewish ; Bible -- Old Testament -- Translating -- Germany ; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 18th century ; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 19th century ; Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century ; Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century ; Germany -- Ethnic relations ; Germany -- Religious life and customs

"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--

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