A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Ruderman, David B.

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ISBN 10: 0295994134 ISBN 13: 9780295994130

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2014

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[E]ngaging. . . . [C]ompelling. . . . What emerges from Ruderman's fresh and compelling analysis is the history of a book that was so popular perhaps because it had something for everyone. -- Shual Magid * American Historical Review *

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In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinhas Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to present the scientific advances and moral cosmopolitanism of its day in the context of Jewish legal and mystical tradition. Describing the latest developments in science and philosophy in the sacred language of Hebrew, Hurwitz argued that an intellectual understanding of the cosmos was not at odds with but actually key to achieving spiritual attainment. In A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era, David B. Ruderman offers a literary and intellectual history of Hurwitz's book and its legacy. Hurwitz not only wrote the book, but was instrumental in selling it as well and his success ultimately led to the publication of more than forty editions in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish. Ruderman provides a multidimensional picture of the book and the intellectual tradition it helped to inaugurate. Complicating accounts that consider modern Jewish thought to be the product of a radical break from a religious, mystical past, Ruderman shows how, instead, a complex continuity shaped Jewish society's confrontation with modernity.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0295994134
• ISBN 13: 9780295994130
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192