Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer / edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner.
2008
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer / edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner.
Imprint
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008.
Description
1 online resource (396 pages)
Formatted Contents Note
Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. Strauss
Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch
Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson
Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman
When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach
The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg
The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel
Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski
Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann
German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer
The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel
Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers
Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai
The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna
Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman
Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman
Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan
Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein
Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner
The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner
Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy
Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen
From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band
Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz
Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.
Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch
Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson
Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman
When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach
The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg
The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel
Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski
Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann
German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer
The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel
Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers
Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai
The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna
Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman
Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman
Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan
Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein
Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner
The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner
Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy
Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen
From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band
Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz
Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2008] xi, 380 pages ; 24 cm
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