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  • Response to Modernity

    A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity

    Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson

    Edited by Michael A. Meyer, David Myers ...
    Brings together leading Jewish scholars to explore the developing interrelation between tradition and change within modern Judaism.Although the ideas of "tradition" and "modernity" may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of the Modern Jew

    Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.Until the 18th century Jews lived in Christian Europe, spiritually and often physically removed form the stream of European culture. During the Enlightenment intellectual Europe accepted a philosophy which, by the universality of its ideals, reached out to embrace the Jew within the greater community of man. The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship

    Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders

    Edited by Anne O. Albert, Noah S. Gerber, Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a diverse, global ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship

    Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders

    Edited by Anne O. Albert, Noah S. Gerber, Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a diverse, global ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi

    An Autobiography—the German and Early American Years

    Edited by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Joachim Prinz (1902–1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never one for conformity, Prinz developed and modeled a new rabbinical role that set him apart from his colleagues in Weimar Germany. Provocative, strikingly informal and determinedly anti-establishment, he repeatedly stirred up controversy. During the Hitler years, Prinz strove to preserve ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rabbi Leo Baeck

    Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Rabbi Leo Baeck

    Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Gershom Scholem

    From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back

    by Noam Zadoff ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897–1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion, and the spiritual and political condition of contemporary Judaism and Jewish civilization. Scholem ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Haskalah and Beyond

    The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

    by Moshe Pelli ...
    Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) - the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

    $79.99 USD