E-Book, Englisch, Band 102, 221 Seiten
Reihe: Studia Judaica
Mendes-Flohr / Livneh-Freudenthal / Miron Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-055461-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums
E-Book, Englisch, Band 102, 221 Seiten
Reihe: Studia Judaica
ISBN: 978-3-11-055461-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of in nineteenth and twentieth Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, German had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual understanding and respect.
The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.
