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What should one know in order to position oneself vis-Ă -vis
other religions and confessions? What is religious knowledge and
how should it be taught? This volume sheds light on educational
media in Judaism and Christianity such as catechisms, children’s
bibles, and sermons as well as Jewish and Protestant teacher
training in 19th-century Germany and explores the methodological
potentials of educational media as a source for (inter-)religious
history. It reflects on broader processes of knowledge production
and the impact of science and scholarship on religious edu-cation
and knowledge production within Christian and Jewish contexts. The
volume draws on an interdisciplinary conference that took place in
2018 and brought together scholars associated with two
transdisciplinary research projects: The German-Israeli research
group “Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and
Cultural Transformation in the Face of Moder-nity”, associated
with the German Historical Institute Washington and Tel Aviv
University (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG,
2014–2019), and the LOEWE research hub “Religious Positioning:
Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Muslim
Contexts” at Goethe University Frankfurt and
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (funded by the Hessian Ministry of
Science and Art, 2015–2021).
The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of
Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present.
Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it
aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions,
interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts
between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and
Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther's
antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the
investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not
only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and
Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions
between Jews and Protestants took place not only in the German
lands but also in the wider Protestant universe; theology was
crucial for the articulation of attitudes toward Jews, but music
and philosophy were additional spheres of creativity that enabled
the process of thinking through the relations between Judaism and
Protestantism. By bringing together various contributions on these
and other aspects, the book opens up directions for future research
on this intricate topic, which bears both historical significance
and evident relevance to our own time.
Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have
been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the
reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking.
Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current
scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made
invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the
religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers'
encounter with German and European culture, including the tension
between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of
non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by
internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to
honor Mendes-Flohr's work by portraying the abundance of religious,
philosophical, aesthetical and political aspects dominating the
thinking of those famous thinkers populating German Jewry's rich
and complex intellectual world in the modern period. It also
provides a fresh theoretical outlook on trends in Jewish
intellectual history, raising new questions concerning the
dialectics of assimilation. In addition to that, the volume sheds
light on thinkers and debates that hitherto have not been accorded
full scholarly attention.
This is a thorough and serious analysis of Friedlander's thinking,
as one of the most important Holocaust scholars of our time. This
volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's
recently published second volume of his landmark history of the
Holocaust, "Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination
1939-1945". This book - the sequel to his volume on the pre-war
years, "Nazi Germany and the Jews 1933-1939: The Years of
Persecution" (1997) - has received wide acclaim and was awarded the
prestigious Friedenspreis in Germany as well as the Pulitzer Prize
for History (USA) in 2008. This volume brings together a range of
internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold
conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's
monumental work. The aim of this book is not simply to evaluate
Friedlander's work on its own merits, but rather to use his text as
a means of exploring the contours and future of Holocaust
historiography. Of central concern is to situate his work within
the broader terrain of Holocaust studies and European history, as
well as to explore the ways in which his book opens up new
directions in the knowledge, study and understanding of the Shoah
in particular and twentieth century genocide in general.
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American
scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had
not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany,
conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an
octogenarian, he became a veritable intellectual celebrity, owing
to the runaway success of his 1979 book The Imperative of
Responsibility. In the 1920s, Jonas studied philosophy with Edmund
Husserl and Martin Heidegger, but the Nazi regime forced him to
leave Germany for London in 1933. He later emigrated to Palestine
and eventually enlisted in the British Army's Jewish Brigade to
fight against Hitler. Following the Israeli War of Independence, he
emigrated to the United States and took a position at the New
School for Social Research in New York. He became part of a circle
of friends around Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, which
included Adolph Lowe and Paul Tillich. This memoir, a diverse
collection of previously unpublished materials-diaries, letters,
interviews, and public statements-has been organized by Christian
Wiese, whose afterword links the Jewish dimensions of Jonas's life
and philosophy. Because Jonas's life spanned the entire twentieth
century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry
during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish
emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German
Jewish emigre intellectuals in New York. Since Memoirs was first
published in 2008, interest in the work of Hans Jonas has grown
among American academics in recent years.
In this book, internationally renowned historians reconstruct the
biography and intellectual development of the rabbi and historian
Abraham Geiger (1810 1874). The focus is on Geiger s intellectual
defense of Judaism s right to exist, his efforts for a modernizing
reform of the Jewish communities as well as his interpretation of
the relationship of Judaism to Christianity and Islam, which is
also important for the current interreligious dialogue."
KAnig David ist eine der herausragendsten Gestalten der Alten Welt.
Sein sagenhafter Aufstieg vom Hirten zum KAnig durch den Sieg
A1/4ber Goliath hat Dichter und KA1/4nstler A1/4ber die
Jahrhunderte inspiriert. In dieser erstmals auf deutsch
verAffentlichten Biographie zeigt der renommierte amerikanische
Alttestamentler Steven McKenzie auf, daA viele Geschichten, die
sich um David ranken, tatsAchlich Mythen sind: Die Bezeichnung
"Hirte" ist eine Metapher fA1/4r "KAnig," und David kam aus einer
reichen Familie der Oberschicht und nicht aus "kleinen
VerhAltnissen." Der David, der bei kritischer Durchsicht der
biblischen Texte, althistorischen Dokumente und neuen
archAologischen Funde zum Vorschein kommt, war ein ThronrAuber,
Ehebrecher und MArder, der seinen Aufstieg zum KAnig geschickter
Machtpolitik und Terror verdankte. Steven McKenzie bietet mit
dieser sorgfAltig recherchierten und spannend geschriebenen
Biographie ein provokantes Portrait. Die englische Originalausgabe
wurde mit dem Preis "Best Book of the Year 2000" der Los Angeles
Times Book Review ausgezeichnet.
"American Jewry" explores new transnational questions in Jewish
history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience
of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the
relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the
hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American
Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did
Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of
Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the
religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in
the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come
together in this volume to present new research on how immigration
from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively
American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe,
yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins.
"American Jewry" explores new transnational questions in Jewish
history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience
of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the
relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the
hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American
Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did
Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of
Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the
religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in
the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come
together in this volume to present new research on how immigration
from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively
American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe,
yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins.
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the
Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary
studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it
examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the
creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have
occupied a liminal position within European society and culture,
being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they
were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as
monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked,
with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid
beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by
Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own
identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns
about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender
and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism.
Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around
the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for
academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in
Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the
Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary
studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it
examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the
creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have
occupied a liminal position within European society and culture,
being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they
were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as
monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked,
with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid
beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by
Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own
identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns
about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender
and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism.
Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around
the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for
academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in
Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
This is a thorough and serious analysis of Friedlander's thinking,
as one of the most important Holocaust scholars of our time. This
volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's
recently published second volume of his landmark history of the
Holocaust, "Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination
1939-1945". This book - the sequel to his volume on the pre-war
years, "Nazi Germany and the Jews 1933-1939: The Years of
Persecution" (1997) - has received wide acclaim and was awarded the
prestigious Friedenspreis in Germany as well as the Pulitzer Prize
for History (USA) in 2008. This volume brings together a range of
internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold
conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's
monumental work. The aim of this book is not simply to evaluate
Friedlander's work on its own merits, but rather to use his text as
a means of exploring the contours and future of Holocaust
historiography. Of central concern is to situate his work within
the broader terrain of Holocaust studies and European history, as
well as to explore the ways in which his book opens up new
directions in the knowledge, study and understanding of the Shoah
in particular and twentieth century genocide in general.
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