Mediating modernity : : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer / / edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Detroit : : Wayne State University Press,, [2008] 2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.