Secularism in Question : : Jews and Judaism in Modern Times / / ed. by Ethan B. Katz, Ari Joskowicz.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Horin, Michal,; Edrei, Arye,; Gribetz, Jonathan Marc,; Joskowicz, Ari,; Katz, Ethan B.,; Lezzi, Eva,; Liska, Vivian,; Manekin, Rachel,; Myers, David N.,; Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon,; Schatz, Andrea,; Schulte, Christoph,; Schwartz, Daniel B.,; Shahar, Galili,; Ury, Scott,
• HerausgeberIn: Joskowicz, Ari,; Katz, Ethan B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism
• PART I. NARRATIONS
• 1. ''Our Rabbi Baruch'': Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment
• Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism
• Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt's Secularization of Jewish Mysticism
• PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
• Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought
• In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's ''Agesilaus Santander''
• The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature
• Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe
• Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France
• PART III. ADAPTATIONS
• Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwa¨rmerei
• Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction
• Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community
• Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion
• Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile
• ''Eleven Calendars'': Beyond Secular Time
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments