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Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith (Studies in German Jewish Cultural Hist)
Nils Roemer
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Hardcover. German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. 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. Series: Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. 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. After German reunification in the early 1870s, Jewish intellectuals reevaluated their embrace of liberalism and ... Read more
German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. 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. After German reunification in the early 1870s, Jewish intellectuals reevaluated their embrace of liberalism and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299211707
SKU
V9780299211707
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About Nils Roemer
Nils H. Roemer is the Ian Karten Lecturer in Jewish History at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Judische Geschichte lesen: Texte der judischen Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20., and numerous articles and essays on these subjects.
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