Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future

200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums

215 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin,
Wissenschaft des Judentums
has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of
Wissenschaft des Judentums
in nineteenth and twentieth Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, German
Wissenschaft des Judentums
had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual understanding and respect.

The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of
Wissenschaft des Judentums
and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.

• Reihe: Studia Judaica
• ISBN: 9783110553543
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.2019
• Genre: Religion, Theologie/Judentum
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Herausgegeben von: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, Guy Miron