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Haskalah and History : the Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness.
Shmuel Feiner's innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalah - the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future and take their place in wider society, but as Jews - without denying th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,
2001.
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- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text; Introduction. 'Haskalah' and 'History'; 1: From Traditional History to Maskilic History in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany; An Enlightened Avant-Garde; The Legitimization of Traditional History; The 'Judgement of Reason': Legitimizations for a New History; Rationalistic, Realistic, and Moralistic History; The Modern Period in the Maskilic Picture of the Past; The Pantheon of Historical Heroes; The Dissemination of Maskilic History in the Early Nineteenth Century.
- 2: The Manipulation of History in Nineteenth-Century GaliciaThe Galician Maskilim; The Unfolding of Maskilic History; A Natural History of Hasidism; Nahman Krochmal: The Middle-of-the-Road Maskil; Wissenschaft des Judentums in Galicia; The Struggle for Freedom of Thought; Iconoclasm: Attitudes to Religious Reform; 3: Optimism under Oppression: Maskilic History in Russia, 1825-1855; The Idea Yearning to be Realized; A Universal History for a Modern Era; The Maskilic Chain of Tradition; The Use of History in Maskilic Propaganda; Political History and Moral History.
- 4: Reaching the Masses: The Dissemination of Maskilic HistoryThe Channels of Distribution; Optimistic and Patriotic History; Scientific Knowledge of the Past; The Autobiography of the Haskalah Movement; Abraham Mapu and the Popularization of Maskilic History; Heroics and Sacred Memories in Popular Historical Fiction; Improvement of the Masses: History in Yiddish; Kalman Schulman: The First Professional Popularizer; 5: Maskilic History in Crisis; The Radical Haskalah: A Loss of Optimism; The Anticlerical Struggle; The Historical Vindication of Hasidism.
- From 'Maskilic History' to 'National History'Conclusion. New Directions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.