| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Contents |
Origins of the modern -- The breakthrough to modernity -- The role of German Jewry -- Historical stages -- Equal rights, not assimilation! -- Steps toward emancipation -- Gabriel Riesser's greatest deed -- Emancipation's greatest foe -- The final step to emancipation -- A few figures -- The dual legacy of Theodor Herzl -- The lifework of Martin Buber -- The Jewish state and the World Jewish Congress -- The essence of Judaism -- Philosophy out of the sources of Judaism -- World history of the Jewish people -- Science from a Jewish perspective -- Education without end -- Jewish literature -- The empty house and Shofar -- Jewish self-hatred -- The Jewish quest for a German Bible -- Judaism's message of the kingdom of God -- The end -- Sorrow -- Continuity -- The legacy of Germany Jewry |
| Summary |
This volume is a comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience. Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy and critical thought in a new light |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Translated from the German |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933.
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Judaism -- Germany.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Jews
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Judaism
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823237142 |
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0823237141 |
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9780823260416 |
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0823260410 |
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