Modern Judaism and historical consciousness : : identities, encounters, perspectives / / edited by Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese.

• TeilnehmendeR: Gotzmann, Andreas.; Wiese, Christian, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2007
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The volume, composed by excellent scholars from different academic disciplines, is a comprehensive handbook devoted to the complex relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking in Europe, the United States, and Israel from the Enlightenment to the present. Apart from analyzing the emergence of a new scholarly historical paradigm during this period, the contributions interpret the interaction and the tensions between Jewish historiography and other disciplines such as literature, theology, sociology, and philosophy, describe the way historical consciousness was popularized and used for ideological purposes and explore the impact of different – religious or secular – identities on the historical representation of the Jewish past. A final part envisions new theoretical and methodological concepts within the field, including cultural studies and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / C. Wiese and A. Gotzmann -- Introduction / Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese -- Chapter 1. Moses Mendelssohn And The Polemics Of History / Jonathan M. Hess -- Chapter 2. Outside And Inside The Nations: Changing Borders In The Study Of The Jewish Past During The Nineteenth Century / Nils Roemer -- Chapter 3. Glaube Und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship In German-Jewish Culture / David N. Myers -- Chapter 4. Two Persistent Tensions Within Wissenschaft Des Judentums / Michael A. Meyer -- Chapter 5. Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic History, And Scholarly Thinking: Wissenschaft And Beyond / Richard S. Sarason -- Chapter 6. Religionswissenschaft And Early Reform Jewish Thought: Samuel Hirsch And David Einhorn / Gershon Greenberg -- Chapter 7. \'The Best Antidote To Anti-Semitism\'? Wissenschaft Des Judentums, Protestant Biblical Scholarship, And Anti-Semitism In Germany Before 1933 / Christian Wiese -- Chapter 8. Fashioning A Neutral Zone: Jewish And Protestant Socialists Challenge Religionswissenschaft In Weimar Germany / Marc A. Krell -- Chapter 9. The Absence Of An Encounter: Sociology And Jewish Studies / Pierre Birnbaum -- Chapter 10. Jewish Thought, Philosophy, And The Holocaust / Michael L. Morgan -- Chapter 11. \'Jewish Literature\' And \'World Literature\': Wissenschaft Des Judentums And Its Concept Of Literature / Andreas B. Kilcher -- Chapter 12. Historicizing Emancipation: Jewish Historical Culture And Wissenschaft In Germany, 1912–1938 / Christhard Hoffmann -- Chapter 13. Historiography In A Cultural Ghetto: Jewish Historians In Nazi Germany / Michael Brenner -- Chapter 14. From Text To Edition: Processes Of Scholarly Thinking In German-Jewish Literature In The Early Nineteenth Century / Gabriele Von Glasenapp -- Chapter 15. Dimensions And Varieties Of Orthodox Judaism / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Chapter 16. Which Wissenschaft? Reconstructionism’S Theological Appropriation Of Sociology And Religious Naturalism / Robert M. Seltzer -- Chapter 17. Postzionism And Postmodern Theory: The Challenge To Jewish Studies / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Chapter 18. Responsive Thinking: Cultural Studies And Jewish Historiography / Jonathan Boyarin -- Chapter 19. Historiography As Cultural Identity: Toward A Jewish History Beyond National History / Andreas Gotzmann -- Chapter 20. The Impact Of Feminist Theory On Jewish Studies / Susannah Heschel -- Chapter 21. What Power For Which Jews? (Post)Modern Reflections On The Idea Of Power In Jewish Historiography / Anthony D. Kauders -- Bibliography / C. Wiese and A. Gotzmann -- Indices / C. Wiese and A. Gotzmann.