ISBN:
9789004284630
Language:
English
Pages:
Onliene Ressource (449 S.)
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 44
Series Statement:
Brill reference library of Judaism v. 44
Series Statement:
The Brill reference library of ancient Judaism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Seltzer, Robert M
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Judaism History
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Jews History
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Jews
;
Jews Identity
;
Judaism
;
Electronic books
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Juden
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
USA
;
Politik
;
Judentum
;
Judentum
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Westliche Welt
Abstract:
〈i〉Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience〈/i〉 provides a variety of new perspectives on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Robert M. Seltzer: Scholar and Teacher; Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period; Part 1 Jewish Life and Modern Questions in Russia and Eastern Europe; Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów; Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation; Saul Borovoi's Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times
Description / Table of Contents:
Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk LegitimacyPart 2 Jewish Thought and Questions of Identity; Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage; Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica; Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550-1700; From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger; Kaplan and Personality; How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus
Description / Table of Contents:
Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin's ThoughtMartin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn; The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn; Part 3 Jewish Religion and Politics in America; How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools; Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry
Description / Table of Contents:
An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930s Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century; "We Must Build Anew": Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion; A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges; Writings of Robert M. Seltzer; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1163/9789004284661
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