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050 00 $aBS941$b.G68 2021
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100 1 $aGottlieb, Michah,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Jewish reformation :$bBible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise /$cMichah Gottlieb
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2021]
300 $ax, 462 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aI. Haskalah : Moses Mendelssohn's moderate reformation -- 1. The Bible as cultural translation -- 2. Biblical education and the power of conversation -- II. Wissenschaft and reform : Leopold Zunz between scholarship and synagogue -- 3. Translation versus Midrash -- 4. Bible translation and the centrality of the synagogue -- III. Neo-orthodoxy : the Samson Rapael Hirsch enigma -- 5. A man of no party : Hirsch's 'Nineteen letters on Judaism' as Bible translation -- 6. The road to orthodoxy : Hirsch in battle -- 7. The innovative orthodoxy of Hirsch's Pentateuch -- 8. The fracturing of German Judaism : Ludwig Philippson's inclusive Israelite Bible and Hirsch's sectarian neo-orthodox Pentateuch -- Conclusion. The Jewish counter-Reformation.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament.$lGerman$xVersions.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xVersions, Jewish.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xTranslating$zGermany.
600 10 $aMendelssohn, Moses,$d1729-1786.
600 10 $aZunz, Leopold,$d1794-1886.
600 10 $aHirsch, Samson Raphael,$d1808-1888.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aJudaism$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aJudaism$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aGermany$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aGermany$xReligious life and customs.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGottlieb, Michah,$tThe Jewish reformation$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2021.$z9780199336401$w(DLC) 2020037505
852 00 $bglx$hBS941$i.G68 2021