Reappraisals and new studies of the modern Jewish experience : : essays in honor of Robert M. Seltzer / / edited by Brian Smollett and Christian Wiese ; contributors, Elissa Bemporad [and nineteen others].

• Superior document: Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 44
• TeilnehmendeR: Smollett, Brian M.,; Wiese, Christian,; Bemporad, Elissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present in the contexts of Russia, Western and Central Europe, and the Americas.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period / Christian Wiese -- Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów / Gershon David Hundert -- Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation / William Cutter -- Saul Borovoi’s Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times / Brian Horowitz -- Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk Legitimacy / Elissa Bemporad -- Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage / Jane S. Gerber -- Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica / Stanley Mirvis -- Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550–1700 / David Sorkin -- From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger / Michael A. Meyer -- Kaplan and Personality / Mel Scult -- How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus / Zach Mann -- Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin’s Thought / Arie M. Dubnov -- Martin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn / Christian Wiese -- The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn / Brian M. Smollett -- How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools / Stephan F. Brumberg -- Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry / Bruce L. Ruben -- An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930's / Naomi W. Cohen -- Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century / Mark A. Raider -- “We Must Build Anew”: Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise’s Jewish Institute of Religion / Shirley Idelson -- A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges / Sanford Ragins -- Writings of Robert M. Seltzer / Roberta S. Newman -- Index.