Reappraisals and new studies of the modern Jewish experience : essays in honor of Robert M. Seltzer /

Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience brings together twenty scholars of Modern Jewish history and thought. The essays provide a fresh perspective on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present in t...

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Other Authors: Smollett, Brian M.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 44.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Call Number: BM160 .R43 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Jewish Identities in the Modern Period /
  • Christian Wiese
  • Language Acquisition as a Criterion of Modernization among East Central European Jews: The Case of Dov Ber Birkenthal of Bolechów /
  • Gershon David Hundert
  • Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky and Shimon Dubnow: A Distant Regard and Appreciation /
  • William Cutter
  • Saul Borovoi's Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times /
  • Brian Horowitz
  • Defying Authority in the Pale: The Making of Soviet Jewish Rituals and the Emergence of Folk Legitimacy /
  • Elissa Bemporad
  • Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage /
  • Jane S. Gerber
  • Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a Rabbinic Counter-Enlightenment from Colonial Jamaica /
  • Stanley Mirvis
  • Merchant Colonies: Resettlement in Italy, France, Holland, and England, 1550-1700 /
  • David Sorkin
  • From Combat to Convergence: The Relationship between Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Geiger /
  • Michael A. Meyer
  • Kaplan and Personality /
  • Mel Scult
  • How Much Eastern Europe in American Jewish Thought? The Case of Jacob B. Agus /
  • Zach Mann
  • Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin's Thought /
  • Arie M. Dubnov
  • Martin Buber and the Impact of World War I on the Prague Zionists Shmuel H. Bergman, Robert Weltsch, and Hans Kohn /
  • Christian Wiese
  • The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Vision in the Life and Thought of Hans Kohn /
  • Brian M. Smollett
  • How the Bible Expelled Religion from the American Schoolroom: The Causes and Consequences of Bible Wars in Nineteenth-Century American Schools /
  • Stephan F. Brumberg
  • Lay and Rabbinic Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Jewry /
  • Bruce L. Ruben
  • An International Solution for an International Problem: The JDC and the AJC in the 1930s /
  • Naomi W. Cohen
  • Stephen S. Wise and Golda Meir: Zionism, Israel, and American Power in the Twentieth Century /
  • Mark A. Raider
  • "We Must Build Anew": Ideological Perspectives of the First Generation of Students to Attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion /
  • Shirley Idelson
  • A Judaism for Moderns: Reflections on Contemporary Challenges /
  • Sanford Ragins
  • Writings of Robert M. Seltzer /
  • Roberta S. Newman
  • Index.