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Author Gottlieb, Michah, author.

Title The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise / Michah Gottlieb
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 462 pages) ; illustrations
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2021)
Subject Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.
Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888
Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament. German -- Versions
Bible. Old Testament -- Versions, Jewish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013777
Bible. Old Testament -- Translating -- Germany
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Ethnic relations
Jews
Judaism
Germany -- Ethnic relations
Germany -- Religious life and customs.
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020037505
ISBN 9780199336401
0199336407
9780199336395
0199336393