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The Resource The idea of modern Jewish culture, Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin

The idea of modern Jewish culture, Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin

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The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a humanly- and not only divinely-mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel
Language
  • eng
  • heb
  • eng
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Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages)
Contents
  • Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal
  • Tensions and contradiction
  • Internalizing the cultural ideal
  • The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment
  • The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil
  • Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism
  • The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism
  • The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed
  • The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture
  • The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism
  • A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment
  • Accelerated change and revolution
  • The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism
  • The pioneering (ḥalutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine
  • Polar views on sources of Jewish culture
  • Alienation from religion and tradition
  • The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel
  • Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture
  • Sanctity and the Jewish national movement
  • The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism
  • Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity
  • Judaism as a culture in the diaspora
  • The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish
  • The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture
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9781618110381
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The idea of modern Jewish culture
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The idea of modern Jewish culture
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Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin
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Language
  • eng
  • heb
  • eng
Summary
The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a humanly- and not only divinely-mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel
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Schweid, Eliezer
Dewey number
296.09/03
Index
index present
Language note
In English
LC call number
BM195
LC item number
.S3913 2008eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1946-
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  • Hadari, Amnon
  • Levin, Leonard
Series statement
The reference library of Jewish intellectual history
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  • Judaism
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Judaism
  • Zionism
  • RELIGION
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Judaism
  • Judaism
  • Zionism
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The idea of modern Jewish culture, Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal -- Tensions and contradiction -- Internalizing the cultural ideal -- The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment -- The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil -- Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism -- The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism -- The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed -- The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture -- The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism -- A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment -- Accelerated change and revolution -- The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism -- The pioneering (ḥalutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine -- Polar views on sources of Jewish culture -- Alienation from religion and tradition -- The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel -- Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture -- Sanctity and the Jewish national movement -- The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism -- Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity -- Judaism as a culture in the diaspora -- The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish -- The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture
Control code
762325117
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781618110381
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1515/9781618110381.
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)762325117
Label
The idea of modern Jewish culture, Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal -- Tensions and contradiction -- Internalizing the cultural ideal -- The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment -- The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil -- Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism -- The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism -- The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed -- The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture -- The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism -- A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment -- Accelerated change and revolution -- The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism -- The pioneering (ḥalutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine -- Polar views on sources of Jewish culture -- Alienation from religion and tradition -- The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel -- Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture -- Sanctity and the Jewish national movement -- The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism -- Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity -- Judaism as a culture in the diaspora -- The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish -- The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture
Control code
762325117
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781618110381
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1515/9781618110381.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)762325117

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