Leopold Zunz

Author : Ismar Schorsch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
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Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812293326

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In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. Despite unending setbacks, he persevered for more than five decades to produce a body of enduring scholarship that would inspire young Jews streaming into German universities and alter forever the understanding of Judaism. By the time of his death in 1886, his vision and labor had given rise to a historical discourse and intellectual movement that devolved into vibrant sub-fields as it expanded to other geographic centers of Jewish life. Yet Zunz was a part-time scholar, at best, in search of employment that would leave him time to study. In addition to his pioneering scholarship, he was as deeply engaged in ending the political tutelage of German Christians as the civil disabilities of German Jews. And to his credit, these commitments did not come at the expense of his loyalty to the Jewish community, which he was ever ready to serve. Zunz once quipped that "those who have read my books are far from knowing me." To complement his books, Zunz left behind a treasure trove of notes, letters and papers, documents that the distinguished scholar of German Jewish culture, Ismar Schorsch, has zealously utilized to write this, the first full-fledged biography of a remarkable man.

Author : Ismar Schorsch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812248531

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Leopold Zunz by Ismar Schorsch Pdf

In 1818, with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail, Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. In Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity, Ismar Schorsch, a distinguished scholar of German Jewish culture, has written the first full-fledged biography of this remarkable man.

Author : Nils Roemer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299211738

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Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Nils Roemer Pdf

German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century—or so it is commonly assumed. In Jewish Scholarship and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Nils Roemer challenges this assumption, finding that religious sentiments, concepts, and rhetoric found expression through a newly emerging theological historicism at the center of modern German Jewish culture. Modern German Jewish identity developed during the struggle for emancipation, debates about religious and cultural renewal, and battles against anti-Semitism. A key component of this identity was historical memory, which Jewish scholars had begun to infuse with theological perspectives beginning in the 1850s. After German reunification in the early 1870s, Jewish intellectuals reevaluated their enthusiastic embrace of liberalism and secularism. Without abandoning the ideal of tolerance, they asserted a right to cultural religious difference for themselves--an ideal they held to even more tightly in the face of growing anti-Semitism. This newly re-theologized Jewish history, Roemer argues, helped German Jews fend off anti-Semitic attacks by strengthening their own sense of their culture and tradition.

Author : H. J. Zimmels
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0265934613

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Excerpt from Leopold Zunz: His Life and Times One of the outstanding Jewish literary develop ments of the nineteenth century is closely connected with the-name of Yom Tob Lippmann Zunz more familiarly known as Leopold Zunz. This was the employment of a new method in Jewish scholarship. Hitherto Jewish scholarship had been almost entirely one - sided. The study of the Talmud, for instance, was with few exceptions limited to the knowledge of its contents to the complete neglect of its sociological background and historical growth. The age of Enlightenment introduced by Mendelssohn in the 18th century did not bring any real improvement in this respect as the Haskalah movement had an entirely different aim, to make the Jews acquaint with general culture. Lack of comprehension of the historical development of the Jewish people and its literature remained therefore as stron ly marked as before. The method introduced by tuuz, however, completely revolutionized Jewish learning, to such an extent as to make it possible to speak of Modern Jewish Scholarship. A record of the life and work of such a man cannot fail to be of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Michael A. Meyer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814337547

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The Origins of the Modern Jew by Michael A. Meyer Pdf

An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.

Author : Hirsch Jakob Zimmels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:637289886

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Leopold Zunz by Hirsch Jakob Zimmels Pdf

Author : H. J. Zimmels
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 133010675X

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Leopold Zunz by H. J. Zimmels Pdf

Excerpt from Leopold Zunz: His Life and Times After his father's death Yom Tob was sent to the Free School at Wolfenbuttel which had been founded by the philanthropic family Samson (hence its name "Samson'sche Freischule"). It was a home with a Beth Ha-Midrash attached, and Zunz attended the latter which differed little from a heder, since no other subject was taught but Bible and Talmud. Before long, however, conditions at this school changed for the better. In the year 1807 its whole system of education was reorganized under the direction of Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg, one of the enlightened Measefim (writers in the periodical Measef). He introduced secular studies into the curriculum and improved methods of teaching so that, when Zunz left the school in the year 1809, he had a firm grounding in Bible, Talmud and the Hebrew language. His Further Training From the year 1809 until 1815, Zunz attended the Gymnasium at Wolfenbuttel, and prepared himself for the University. At the same time he taught at the Samson Free School in which he had previously been a pupil. In the year 1815 he left Wolfenbuttel for Berlin to take up his studies at the University. History, philology and mathematics were his main subjects, and he earned his livelihood by giving private instruction. It was at the University that Zunz became inspired with the idea which was to lead to the opening of a new era of Jewish scholarship and to establish his fame for ever - this was the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums). Founder of the "Science of Judaism" What is the "Science of Judaism"? What is its method? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hirsch Jacob Zimmels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:923624384

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Leopold Zunz by Hirsch Jacob Zimmels Pdf

Author : Leopold Zunz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Jewish scholars
ISBN : UOM:39015013738235

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Leopold and Adelheid Zunz by Leopold Zunz Pdf

A collection of the letters of Leopold and Adelheid Zunz, S.M. Ehrenberg, and others, edited for the most part from those in the Franz Rosenzweig Archives.

Author : Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874413443

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The Judaic Tradition by Nahum Norbert Glatzer Pdf

A sourcebook of post-biblical Jewish literature from the Second Commonwealth to modern times.

Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110604498

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Alienated Wisdom by Giuseppe Veltri Pdf

The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination ‘Jewish philosophy’ will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.

Author : Israel Zinberg
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0870684914

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The Science of Judaism and Galician Haskalah by Israel Zinberg Pdf

Author : Leo Baeck Institute
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 3161455975

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Catalog of the Archival Collections by Leo Baeck Institute Pdf

One of the primary reasons for founding the Leo Baeck Institute was to create a place where the remnants of public and family archives of German Jewry could be collected and preserved for study and research. It includes over 4,000 collections.

Author : H J Zimmels
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356050808

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Author : Marion A. Kaplan,Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222633

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Gender and Jewish History by Marion A. Kaplan,Deborah Dash Moore Pdf

""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.