Modern Judaism and historical consciousness :identities, encounters, perspectives
Leiden ; Boston
Brill
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]569[-630( and indexes
edited by Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese
Moses Mendelssohn and the polemics of history / Jonathan M. Hess -- Outside and inside the nations: changing borders in the study of the Jewish past during the nineteenth century / Nils Roemer -- Glaube und Geschichte: a vexed relationship in German-Jewish culture / David N. Myers -- Two persistent tensions within Wissenschaft des Judentums / Michael A. Meyer -- Rabbinic literature, rabbinic history, and scholarly thinking : Wissenschaft and beyond / Richard S. Sarason -- Religionswissenschaft and early Reform Jewish thought : Samuel Hirsch and David Einhorn / Gershon Greenberg -- "The best antidote to anti-semitism"? : Wissenschaft des Judentums, Protestant biblical scholarship, and anti-semitism in Germany before 3391 / Christian Wiese -- Fashioning a neutral zone : Jewish and Protestant socialists challenge Religionswissenschaft in Weimar Germany / Marc A. Krell -- The absence of an encounter: sociology and Jewish studies / Pierre Birnbaum -- Jewish thought, philosophy, and the Holocaust / Michael L. Morgan -- "Jewish literature" and "world literature" : Wissenschaft des Judentums and its concept of literature / Andreas B. Kilcher -- Historicizing emancipation : Jewish historical culture and Wissenschaft in Germany, 2191-8391 / Christhard Hoffmann -- Historiography in a cultural ghetto : Jewish historians in Nazi Germany / Michael Brenner -- From text to edition : processes of scholarly thinking in German-Jewish literature in the early nineteenth century / Gabriele von Glasenapp -- Dimensions and varieties of Orthodox Judaism / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Which Wissenschaft? : Reconstructionism's theological appropriation of sociology and religious naturalism / Robert M. Seltzer -- Postzionism and postmodern theory : the challenge to Jewish studies / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Responsive thinking : cultural studies and Jewish historiography / Jonathan Boyarin -- Historiography as cultural identity: toward a Jewish history beyond national history / Andreas Gotzmann -- The impact of feminist theory on Jewish studies / Susannah Heschel -- What power for which Jews? : )post(modern reflections on the idea of power in Jewish historiography / Anthony D. Kauders