Renewing the past, reconfiguring Jewish culture
Subtitle: from al-Andalus to the Haskalah
By: edited by Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe.
Contributors: Brann, Ross, 1949-.; Sutcliffe, Adam.; University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Jews -- Civilization -- Congresses; Jews -- Spain -- Civilization -- Congresses; Jews -- Italy -- Civilization -- Congresses; Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Philosophy, Jewish -- Congresses; Haskalah -- Germany -- Congresses; Jews -- Civilization -- Historiography -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers delivered at a symposium of a seminar at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Al-Anadalus, enlightenment, and the renewal of the Jewish past / Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann; title: Aesthetic models in conflict: classicist versus ornamental in Jewish poetics / Joseph Yahalom; title: The uses of Exile in poetic dicourse: some examples from medieval Hebrew literature / Esperanza Alfonso; title: Their rose in our garden: romance elements in Hebrew Italian poetry / Dvora Bregman; title: The crisis of medieval knowledge in the work of the fifteenth-century poet and philosopher Moses da Rieti / Alessandro Guetta; title: Judah Halevi's Kuzari in the Haskalah: the reinterpretation and reimaging of a medieval work / Adam Shear; title: The aesthetic difference: Moses Mendelssohn's Kohelet Musar and the inception of the Berlin Haskalah / Jonathan Karp; title: Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais's program of Sephardi rabbinic humanism in Victorian America / Arthur Kiron; title: Solomon Maimon and his Jewish philosophical predecessors: the evidence of his autobiography / Allan Arkush; title: Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn and the fashioning of Jewish philosophical heroism / Adam Sutcliffe; title: Strategic friendships: Jewish intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire, and the French revolution / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall; title: Hine and Haggadah: history, narration, and tradition in the age of Wissenschaft des Judentums / Jonathan Skolnik.