Modern Judaism and historical consciousness identities, encounters, perspectives - Gotzmann, Andreas 1960-; Wiese, Christian 1961- (Brill, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-630) and indexes
Moses Mendelssohn and the polemics of history / Jonathan M. Hess -- Outside and inside the nations: changing borders in the study of the Jewish past during the nineteenth century / Nils Roemer -- Glaube und Geschichte: a vexed relationship in German-Jewish culture / David N. Myers -- Two persistent tensions within Wissenschaft des Judentums / Michael A. Meyer -- Rabbinic literature, rabbinic history, and scholarly thinking : Wissenschaft and beyond / Richard S. Sarason -- Religionswissenschaft and early Reform Jewish thought : Samuel Hirsch and David Einhorn / Gershon Greenberg -- "The best antidote to anti-semitism"? : Wissenschaft des Judentums, Protestant biblical scholarship, and anti-semitism in Germany before 1933 / Christian Wiese -- Fashioning a neutral zone : Jewish and Protestant socialists challenge Religionswissenschaft in Weimar Germany / Marc A. Krell -- The absence of an encounter: sociology and Jewish studies / Pierre Birnbaum --
- Jewish thought, philosophy, and the Holocaust / Michael L. Morgan -- "Jewish literature" and "world literature" : Wissenschaft des Judentums and its concept of literature / Andreas B. Kilcher -- Historicizing emancipation : Jewish historical culture and Wissenschaft in Germany, 1912-1938 / Christhard Hoffmann -- Historiography in a cultural ghetto : Jewish historians in Nazi Germany / Michael Brenner -- From text to edition : processes of scholarly thinking in German-Jewish literature in the early nineteenth century / Gabriele von Glasenapp -- Dimensions and varieties of Orthodox Judaism / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Which Wissenschaft? : Reconstructionism's theological appropriation of sociology and religious naturalism / Robert M. Seltzer -- Postzionism and postmodern theory : the challenge to Jewish studies / Laurence J. Silberstein -- Responsive thinking : cultural studies and Jewish historiography / Jonathan Boyarin --
- Historiography as cultural identity: toward a Jewish history beyond national history / Andreas Gotzmann -- The impact of feminist theory on Jewish studies / Susannah Heschel -- What power for which Jews? : (post)modern reflections on the idea of power in Jewish historiography / Anthony D. Kauders
Draws on the relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking in Europe, the United States and Israel from the Enlightenment to the present. This work interprets the interaction and the tensions between Jewish historiography and other disciplines such as literature, theology, sociology and philosophy