The idea of modern Jewish culture
By: Eliezer Schweid ; [translated by Amnon Hadari ; edited by Leonard Levin].
Contributors: Hadari, Amnon.; Levin, Leonard, 1946-
Series: Reference library of Jewish intellectual history
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781934843055
Subjects: Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-; Jews -- Intellectual life; Jews -- Identity; Judaism -- 20th century; Zionism -- Philosophy
Work titles: Liḳrat tarbut Yehudit modernit.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal; title: Tensions and contradiction; title: Internalizing the cultural ideal; title: The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment; title: The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil; title: Crossroad : the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism; title: The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism; title: The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed; title: The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture; title: The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism; title: A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment; title: Accelerated change and revolution; title: The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism; title: The pioneering (halutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine; title: Polar views on sources of Jewish culture; title: Alienation from religion and tradition; title: The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel; title: Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture; title: Sanctity and the Jewish national movement; title: The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism; title: Orthodox Zionist culture : sanctifying modernity; title: Judaism as a culture in the diaspora; title: The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish; title: The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture.