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Mediating Modernity : Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meyer, Michael A., Brenner, Michael, 1964-, Strauss, Lauren B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. Strauss
  • Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch
  • Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson
  • Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman
  • When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach
  • The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg
  • The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel
  • Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski
  • Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann
  • German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer
  • The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel
  • Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers
  • Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai
  • The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna
  • Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman
  • Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siecle / Paula E. Hyman
  • Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan
  • Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein
  • Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner
  • The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner
  • Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy
  • Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen
  • From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band
  • Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz
  • Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.