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Moses Hess and modern Jewish identity /

Moses Hess, a fascinating 19th-century German Jewish intellectual figure, was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist. Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity offers a radically new reading of Moses Hess's corpus in order to rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koltun-Fromm, Ken
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity; 2 Conceptions of Self and Identity in Hess's Early Works and Rome and Jerusalem; 3 Hess's ReturnŽ to Judaism and Narrative Identity; 4 Inescapable Frameworks: Emotions, Race, and the Rhetoric of Jewish Identity; 5 Traditions and Scars: Hess's Critique of Reform and Orthodox Judaism; 6 Innocence and Experience in Rome and Jerusalem; Notes; Bibliography; Index.