Judaism within Modernity: Essays on Jewish History and Religion - Hardcover

Meyer, Michael A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814328741 ISBN 13: 9780814328743

Verlag: Wayne State University Press, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

Judaism within Modernity begins with an exploration of Jewish historiography and the problems of periodization in modern Jewish history. In these beginning essays we see the range of Meyer's thinking about what constitutes modernization and how to determine its beginning. He discusses the role of history in defining identity among Jews and suggests that finding an adequate paradigm of continuity is essential to the historian's task. The essays in the second section focus on the Jews of Germany. Here Meyer writes about the influence of German Jews on Jews in the United States, comparing the historical experience of the two communities. A third section deals with the European Reform movement, which brought a liberal Judaism to the majority of German Jews. The essays in the final section explore Judaism in the United States. In particular, they show how reform Judaism and Zionism were able to reconcile their initial differences.

Biografía del autor:

Michael A. Meyer is the Adolph S. Ochs professor of Jewish History at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. He is the author of The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824 (Wayne State University Press, 1967), Jewish Identity in the Modern World (University of Washington Press, 1990), and Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Wayne State University Press, 1994), which won the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish history.

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• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814328741
• ISBN 13: 9780814328743
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412