The Berlin Haskalah And German Religious Thought
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The Berlin Haskalah And German Religious Thought
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Author : David Jan Sorkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Berlin Haskalah And German Religious Thought written by David Jan Sorkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The Berlin Haskalah was the Jewish attempt to rearticulate belief to accommodate the new science and philosophy of the Enlightenment. This study argues that the Haskalah should be understood within the context of the wider Central European religious and intellectual changes.
The Berlin Haskalah And German Religious Thought
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Author : David Jan Sorkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Berlin Haskalah And German Religious Thought written by David Jan Sorkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Catholics categories.
New Perspectives On The Haskalah
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Author : Shmuel Feiner
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-01
New Perspectives On The Haskalah written by Shmuel Feiner and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with Religion categories.
Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.
The Religious Enlightenment
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Author : David Sorkin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
The Religious Enlightenment written by David Sorkin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Religion categories.
In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature. Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William Warburton in England, Moses Mendelssohn in Prussia, and Adrien Lamourette in France, among others. He demonstrates that, in the century before the French Revolution, the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism, to name but three such movements, were influential participants in the eighteenth century's burgeoning public sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations. Sorkin shows how they pioneered a religious Enlightenment that embraced the new science of Copernicus and Newton and the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, uniting reason and revelation to renew faith and piety. This book reveals how Enlightenment theologians refashioned belief as a solution to the dogmatism and intolerance of previous centuries. Read it and you will never view the Enlightenment the same way.
Moses Mendelssohn And The Religious Enlightenment
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Author : David Sorkin
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 2012-08-27
Moses Mendelssohn And The Religious Enlightenment written by David Sorkin and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet 'the Socrates of Berlin'. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between reason and revelation in an age contending with individual rights and religious toleration. He did not aspire to a comprehensive philosophy of Judaism, since he thought human reason was limited, but he did see Judaism as compatible with toleration and rights. David Sorkin offers a close study of Mendelssohn's complete writings, treating the German, and the often-neglected Hebrew writings, as a single corpus and arguing that Mendelssohn's two spheres of endeavour were entirely consistent.
Jewish Philosophical Politics In Germany 1789 1848
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Author : Sven-Erik Rose
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-05
Jewish Philosophical Politics In Germany 1789 1848 written by Sven-Erik Rose and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Social Science categories.
In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the "subversive" dimensions of German-Jewish thought or the "inner antisemitism" of the German philosophical tradition, Rose shows convincingly the tremendous resources German philosophy offered contemporary Jews for thinking about the place of Jews in the wider polity. Offering a fundamental reevaluation of seminal figures and key texts, Rose emphasizes the productive encounter between Jewish intellectuals and German philosophy. He brings to light both the complexity and the ambivalence of reflecting on Jewish identity and politics from within a German tradition that invested tremendous faith in the political efficacy of philosophical thought itself.
Special Issue On German Jewish Religious Thought
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Special Issue On German Jewish Religious Thought written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Judaism categories.
German Jewry And The Allure Of The Sephardic
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Author : John M. Efron
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-28
German Jewry And The Allure Of The Sephardic written by John M. Efron and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with History categories.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry. Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age. Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty.
German Jewish Religious Thought
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Author : Leora Batnitzsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
German Jewish Religious Thought written by Leora Batnitzsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
The Jewish Enlightenment
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Author : Shmuel Feiner
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-08-17
The Jewish Enlightenment written by Shmuel Feiner and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-17 with History categories.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe and America would be unthinkable without the intellectual and social revolution that was the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Unparalleled in scale and comprehensiveness, The Jewish Enlightenment reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the eighteenth century. Relying on a huge range of previously unexplored sources, Shmuel Feiner fully views the Haskalah as the Jewish version of the European Enlightenment and, as such, a movement that cannot be isolated from broader eighteenth-century European traditions. Critically, he views the Haskalah as a truly European phenomenon and not one simply centered in Germany. He also shows how the republic of letters in European Jewry provided an avenue of secularization for Jewish society and culture, sowing the seeds of Jewish liberalism and modern ideology and sparking the Orthodox counterreaction that culminated in a clash of cultures within the Jewish community. The Haskalah's confrontations with its opponents within Jewry constitute one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the dramatic and traumatic encounter between the Jews and modernity. The Haskalah is one of the central topics in modern Jewish historiography. With its scope, erudition, and new analysis, The Jewish Enlightenment now provides the most comprehensive treatment of this major cultural movement.