MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01519cam a22002774a 4500
001 2008026111
003 DLC
005 20090623103314.0
008 080611s2009 cau b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2008026111
020 $a9780804760416 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aCSt/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aDS134.25$b.B54 2009
082 00 $a305.892/4043$222
100 1 $aBiemann, Asher D.
245 10 $aInventing new beginnings :$bon the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism /$cAsher D. Biemann.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 428 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStanford studies in Jewish history and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity ; Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory ; Turning: transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection ; The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re-)turn(-ing) to/of tradition ; The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1800-1933$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zGermany.