Title Challenging colonial discourse : Jewish studies and Protestant theology in Wilhelmine Germany / by Christian Wiese ; translated from the German by Barbara Harshav and Christian Wiese

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 577 pages) Series Studies in European Judaism, 1568-5004 ; v. 10 Studies in European Judaism ; v. 10. 1568-5004 Contents Foreword by Susannah Heschel -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE CONTEXT OF THE ENCOUNTERS AND CONTROVERSIES -- Chapter One: The Political and Social Situation of the Jewish Community in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890â€?1914 -- 1. The Collapse of the Jewish Coalition with Liberalism and the Spread of Modern Anti-Semitism -- 2. The Remaining Limitations of the Emancipation of the Jews and Judaism -- 3. The Assimilation Crisis and Tendencies toward Recollecting Jewish Identity -- 3.1. Assimilation, Acculturation, and German-Jewish Subculture 3.2. Defense Work between Trotzjudentum and Jewish Renaissance3.3. Self-Emancipation â€? the Impulse of the Zionist Movement -- Chapter Two: The Self-Conception and Research Conditions of Jewish Studies -- 1. The Beginnings and Development of Jewish Studies in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Profile and Scholarly Self-Understanding of the Educational Institutions of Jewish Studies -- 2.1. Positive-Historical Judaism â€? the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau -- 2.2. Liberal Judaism â€? The Lehranstalt fÃ?r die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin 2.3. Torah and Scholarship â€? The Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin3. The Conditions of Jewish Studies' Encounter with Protestant Theology -- 3.1. Jewish Research between Discrimination and Claim to Relevance -- 3.2. Jewish Studies and Defense Work against Anti-Semitism -- PART TWO THE PERCEPTION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY -- Chapter Three: Jewish Studies and the Protestant Mission to the Jews, 1880â€?1914 -- 1. The Jewish Perception of Protestant Allies in the Debate with Anti-Semitism, 1880â€?1890 1.1. The Contemporary Context: Demonization of Judaism through Anti-Talmud Propaganda and Accusations of Ritual Murder1.2. The Defense of Jewish Morality as Reflected in the Debate between David Hoffmann and Gustaf Dalman, 1886/1894 -- 2. Love of Israel? â€? Jewish Refutation of Franz Delitzsch's Concept of the Mission to the Jews and the Limits of Christian Solidarity, 1880â€?1890 -- 2.1. Delitzsch's Controversy with Abraham Berliner over the Instituta Judaica, 1884/85 2.2. The Debate of Jewish Scholars with Delitzsch's Ernste Fragen an die Gebildeten jÃ?discher Religion, 1888/893. An Honest Friend of Judaism â€? The Significance of Hermann L. Strack from the Perspective of Jewish Studies -- 3.1. Herculean labor â€? Strack's Refutation of the Anti-Semitic Disparagement of the Jewish Religion -- 3.2. Appreciation of Strack's Scholarly Activity in the Area of Jewish Studies -- 4. We May Not Bite the Hand that Feeds Us â€? Interpretation of the Relationship between Jewish Studies and the Mission to the Jews Summary On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances-the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation-on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-539) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Judaism (Christian theology) -- History Jewish learning and scholarship -- Germany Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Historiography Judaism -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues. Jewish learning and scholarship Judaism Judaism (Christian theology) Judaism -- Controversial literature Judaism -- Historiography Judaïstiek. Theologie. Protestantisme. Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789047404071 9047404076 9789004119628 9004119620 1280859067 9781280859069 9786610859061 661085906X

Other Titles Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland. English

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