Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary : : The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West / / ed. by Tamás Turán, Carsten Wilke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Blau, Joshua,; Fenton, Paul B.,; Fraisse, Ottfried,; Gafni, Isaiah M.,; Hézser, Catherine,; Komoróczy, Géza,; Konrád, Miklós,; Kovács, András,; Schorsch, Ismar,; Schweitzer, Gábor,; Shaked, Shaul,; Stemberger, Günter,; Thulin, Mirjam,; Turán, Tamás,; Voigt, Vilmos,; Wiese, Christian,; Wilke, Carsten L.,; Wilke, Carsten,
• HerausgeberIn: Turán, Tamás,; Wilke, Carsten,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 415 p.)

The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century. In Hungary, scholars such as Leopold and Immanuel Löw, David Kaufmann, Ignaz Goldziher, Wilhelm Bacher, and Samuel Krauss had a lasting impact on the Wissenschaft des Judentums (“Science of Judaism”). Their contributions to Biblical, rabbinic and Semitic studies, Jewish history, ethnography and other fields were always part of a trans-national Jewish scholarly network and the academic universe. Yet Hungarian Jewish scholarship assumed a regional tinge, as it emerged at an intersection between unquelled Ashkenazi yeshiva traditions, Jewish modernization movements, and Magyar politics that boosted academic Orientalism in the context of patriotic historiography. For the first time, this volume presents an overview of a century of Hungarian Jewish scholarly achievements, examining their historical context and assessing their ongoing relevance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary: An Introduction -- Testimonies -- The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and Oriental Studies in Hungary -- The Rabbinical Seminary and the War Years -- Was R. Saadia Gaon’s Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch Meant for Muslims Too? -- Elective Affinities -- From Talmud Torah to Oriental Studies: Itineraries of Rabbinical Students in Hungary -- Scholarship and Patriotism: Research on the History of Hungarian Jewry and the Rabbinical Seminary of Hungary—the First Decades -- Suspension Bridge of Confidence: Folklore Studies in Jewish-Hungarian Scholarship -- Transnational Connections -- Beyond the Classroom: The Enduring Relationship between Heinrich L. Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher -- Connecting Centers of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David Kaufmann in Budapest, 1877–1899 -- The International Context of Samuel Krauss’s Scholarship: Network Connections between East and West -- Figures -- Re-Orientalism -- From Geiger to Goldziher: Historical Method and its Impact on the Conception of Islam -- Academic Religion: Goldziher as a Scholar and a Jew -- From Bacher to Telegdi: The Lure of Iran in Jewish Studies -- Untrodden Paths -- Meir Friedmann–A Pioneering Scholar of Midrash -- Adolf Büchler and the Historiography of Talmudic Judaism -- Georges Vajda’s Contribution to the Study of the Kabbalah -- Political Confrontations -- Hungarian Expectations and Jewish Self-Definitions, 1840–1914 -- Defending the Dignity of Judaism: Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Christian Prejudice, Racial Antisemitism, and the Exclusion of Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1880–1914 -- The Decades of an Ending: The Budapest Rabbinical Seminary after the Shoah -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- The Authors