Overview
Chajim H. Steinthal (1823 - 1899) was a philosophical linguist and teacher of the ""Science of Judaism"". Among other things, together with Moritz Lazarus, he founded the discipline of ""Voelkerpsychologie"" (""psychology of nations""). He taught mainly at the University of Berlin and the Hochschule (later Lehranstalt) fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. This volume contains the results of an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism (LEUCOREA Foundation, Wittenberg), the Synagogue Museum Groebzig and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. It presents papers in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, Jewish studies and history, as well as an inventory of Steinthal's papers in Jerusalem.
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Author: Hartwig Wiedebach ,
Annette Winkelmann
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 4
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.688kg
ISBN: 9789004126459
ISBN 10: 9004126457
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 26 April 2002
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English, German
Reviews
'This volume adds invaluably to our historical knowledge of the much forgotten but highly significant influence of H. Steinthal in developing the study of modern linguistics and in creating modern Jewish studies. In so doing, this collection of essays raises anew many urgent philosophical questions about the interconnections between language, theology, and politics. Individually the essays are excellent and as a whole the volume is a major contribution to our understanding of European Judaism.' Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University.
' This volume adds invaluably to our historical knowledge of the much forgotten but highly significant influence of H. Steinthal in developing the study of modern linguistics and in creating modern Jewish studies. In so doing, this collection of essays raises anew many urgent philosophical questions about the interconnections between language, theology, and politics. Individually the essays are excellent and as a whole the volume is a major contribution to our understanding of European Judaism.'<br>Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University.<br>
Author Information
Hartwig Wiedebach, Dr. phil., University of Zurich, is researcher at the Moses-Mendelssohn Centre for European-Judaic Studies, University of Potsdam. His most recent publications are Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism. Tradition and the Concept of Origin in Hermann Cohen's Later Work, with G. Motzkin and H. Holzhey, (Hildesheim, 2000) and Die Bedeutung der Nationalitat fur Hermann Cohen, (Hildesheim, 1997). Annette Winkelmann, MA in Judaic Studies, University of Cologne, is Project Manager at the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism and Managing Editor of the Newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies. Her most recent publications are Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century with J. Helm, (Leiden, 2001) and Directory of Jewish Studies in Europe, (Oxford, 1998).
