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Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship - Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (Hardcover)
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Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship - Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the
nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a
movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism
and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a
collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its
original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a
diverse, global field. From the early expansion of the new
scholarly approaches into Jewish publications across Europe to
their translation and reinterpretation in the twentieth century,
the studies included here collectively trace a path through largely
neglected subject matter, newly recognized as deserving attention.
Beginning with an introduction that surveys the field's German
origins, fortunes, and contexts, the volume goes on to document
dimensions of the growth of Wissenschaft des Judentums elsewhere in
Europe and throughout the world. Some of the contributions turn to
literary and semantic issues, while others reveal the penetration
of Jewish studies into new national contexts that include Hungary,
Italy, and even India. Individual essays explore how the United
States, along with Israel, emerged as a main center for Jewish
historical scholarship and how critical Jewish scholarship began to
accommodate Zionist ideology originating in Eastern Europe and
eventually Marxist ideology, primarily in the Soviet Union.
Finally, the focus of the volume moves on to the land of Israel,
focusing on the reception of Orientalism and Jewish scholarly
contacts with Yemenite and native Muslim intellectuals. Taken
together, the contributors to the volume offer new material and
fresh approaches that rethink the relationship of Jewish studies to
the larger enterprise of critical scholarship while highlighting
its relevance to the history of humanistic inquiry worldwide.
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