Mediating modernity
Subtitle: challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer
By: edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner.
Contributors: Strauss, Lauren B.; Brenner, Michael.; Meyer, Michael A.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780814333952
Subjects: Meyer, Michael A; Jews -- Identity -- History; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945; Enlightenment; Reform Judaism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. Strauss; title: Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch; title: Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson; title: Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman; title: When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach; title: 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; title: The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel; title: Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski; title: Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann; title: German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer; title: The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel; title: Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers; title: Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai; title: The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna; title: Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman; title: Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman; title: Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan; title: Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein; title: Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner; title: The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner; title: Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy; title: Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen; title: From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band; title: Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz; title: Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.