Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity:
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780253339348
Subjects: Jewish studies; Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; History Of Jews; Jewish Law; History; Religion - Judaism; Religion; Anthropology - Cultural; Judaism - General; Jewish - General; 1812-1875; 19th century; Cultural assimilation; Germany; Hess, Moses,; Identity; Jews; Judaism
First sentence: In Rome and Jerusalem (1862), Moses Hess imagined a new Jewry, one progressive and traditional, religious and socialist, nationalist and humanitarian.
Description: "Ken Koltun-Fromm's radical reinterpretation of the writings of Moses Hess, a fascinating nineteenth-century German Jewish intellectual figure who was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist, shows Hess as a Jew struggling with the meaning of conflicting commitments and impulses. Modern readers will recognize how in Hess's life, as in their own, these commitments remain fragmented and torn.

As contemporary Jews negotiate multiple, often contradictory allegiances in the modern world, Koltun-Fromm argues that Hess's struggle to unite conflicting traditions and frameworks of meaning offers intellectual and practical resources to re-examine the dilemmas of modern Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.