Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Encounters, Perspectives

Contents
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Abbreviations......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 10
Introduction Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese......Page 14
Part I The Emergence and Function of a New Scholarly Paradigm......Page 24
1. Moses Mendelssohn and the Polemics of History Jonathan M. Hess......Page 26
2. Outside and Inside the Nations: Changing Borders in the Study of the Jewish Past during the Nineteenth Century Nils Roemer......Page 51
3. Glaube und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship in German-Jewish Culture David N. Myers......Page 77
4. Two Persistent Tensions within Wissenschaft des Judentums Michael A. Meyer......Page 96
Part II Jewish Historiography and Its Encounter with Other Disciplines......Page 114
5. Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic History, and Scholarly Thinking: Wissenschaft and Beyond Richard S. Sarason......Page 116
6. Religionswissenschaft and Early Reform Jewish Thought: Samuel Hirsch and David Einhorn Gershon Greenberg......Page 133
7. "The Best Antidote to Anti-Semitism"? Wissenschaft des Judentums, Protestant Biblical Scholarship, and Anti-Semitism in Germany before 1933 Christian Wiese......Page 168
8. Fashioning a Neutral Zone: Jewish and Protestant Socialists Challenge Religionswissenschaft in Weimar Germany Marc A. Krell......Page 216
9. The Absence of an Encounter: Sociology and Jewish Studies Pierre Birnbaum......Page 247
10.  Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and the Holocaust Michael L. Morgan......Page 297
11. "Jewish Literature" and "World Literature": Wissenschaft des Judentums and its Concept of Literature Andreas B. Kilcher......Page 322
Part III Ideology and Popularization in Jewish Historiography......Page 350
12. Historicizing Emancipation: Jewish Historical Culture and Wissenschaft in Germany, 1912–1938 Christhard Hoffmann......Page 352
13. Historiography in a Cultural Ghetto: Jewish Historians in Nazi Germany Michael Brenner......Page 379
14. From Text to Edition: Processes of Scholarly Thinking in German-Jewish Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century Gabriele von Glasenapp......Page 391
Part IV Wissenschaft and Jewish Identity......Page 412
15. Dimensions and Varieties of Orthodox Judaism Aviezer Ravitzky......Page 414
16. Which Wissenschaft? Reconstructionism's Theological Appropriation of Sociology and Religious Naturalism Robert M. Seltzer......Page 440
17. Postzionism and Postmodern Theory: The Challenge to Jewish Studies Laurence J. Silberstein......Page 468
Part V New Concepts and Perspectives......Page 496
18. Responsive Thinking: Cultural Studies and Jewish Historiography Jonathan Boyarin......Page 498
19. Historiography as Cultural Identity: Toward a Jewish History beyond National History Andreas Gotzmann......Page 517
20. The Impact of Feminist Theory on Jewish Studies Susannah Heschel......Page 552
21. What Power for Which Jews? (Post)Modern Reflections on the Idea of Power in Jewish Historiography Anthony D. Kauders......Page 572
Bibliography......Page 592
Indices......Page 654
Index of Subjects......Page 656
Index of Names......Page 665