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The formation of a modern Rabbi : the life and times of the Viennese scholar and preacher Adolf Jellinek /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kessler, Samuel Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies ; [2022]
Colección:Brown Judaic studies ; number 371.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on Place-Names and Translations
  • Introduction
  • 1. On the Threshold of Modernity: Jellinek's Early Years
  • 2. Town and Gown: Jewish Leipzig and the Wissenschaft des Judentums
  • 3. Breakthroughs in Scholarship: Jellinek's Studies
  • 4. Attraction to Rabbinic Innovation: Jellinek and Midrash
  • 5. Divided Loyalties: Jellinek between Scholarship and Communal Leadership
  • 6. A New Synagogue for a New Suburb: Jellinek in Vienna's Leopoldstadt
  • 7. Tradition and Change in the Rabbinic Persona:Jellinek's Context and Innovations in Vienna
  • 8. Major Themes in Jellinek's Sermons
  • 9. Jellinek's Sermons: Justice, Care of the Stranger,and Ethical Universalism
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography of the Works of Adolf Jellinek.