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The culmination of Eliezer Schweid’s life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical developments, with extensive primary source excerpts. Volume Two, ""The Birth of the Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements,"" discusses the major Jewish thinkers of central and eastern Europe before 1881, in connection with the movements they fostered: German-Jewish Wissenschaft (Zunz), Reform (Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Geiger), Neo-Orthodoxy (S. D. Luzzatto, Steinheim, Samson Raphael Hirsch), Positive-Historical (Frankel, Graetz), and Neo-Haredi (Kalischer, Malbim, Hayyim Volozhiner, Salanter). In addition, extensive attention is given to the thinkers of the east-European Haskalah, both earlier (Levinsohn, Rubin, Schorr, Mieses, Abraham Krochmal) and later proto-Zionist thinkers (Zweifel, Smolenskin, Pines, Lilienblum).

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Author:   Leonard Levin ,  Eliezer Schweid
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9789004290907

ISBN 10:   9004290907
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: The Philosophical Foundation for Jewish Studies The Association (Verein) for the Culture and Scientific Study of Jewry Eduard Gans Immanuel Wolf Leopold Zunz Chapter Two: The Science of History, Philosophy of History, and Reestablishing Judaism as the Religion of Reason (vis-à-vis Secular Humanism and Christianity) Historical Development Judaism as “Religion of Spirit”: The Teaching of Solomon Formstecher Judaism as Ethical-Religious Commitment: The Teaching of Samuel Hirsch Reform in the Mode of “Religious Feeling”: The Influence of Friedrich Schleiermacher on Abraham Geiger Chapter Three: The Political Philosophy of the National Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe Introduction Adapting the Doctrine of Interfaith Tolerance in the Secular State: The Teaching of R. Isaac Baer Levinsohn The Attack on the Rabbinic Establishment: Spinoza’s Influence on the Radical Hebrew Haskalah Chapter Four: Revealed Torah and Kant’s Critical Idealism Introductory Remarks The Dialogue between R. Judah Halevi’s Teaching and the Critical Philosophy of Locke and Kant in the Thought of Samuel David Luzzatto Revelation and the Critique of Reason: The Philosophy of Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Discovering the Inner Light of Torah: The Teaching of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chapter Five: Adaptation and Growth of the Inner Space of Torah in Response to Humanism Introduction Ultra-Orthodox Nationalism in Response to Reform: Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer Systematic Grounding and Enrichment of Orthodoxy in Response to Humanism: The Teaching of the Malbim Developing the Halakhic Alternative to Hasidism and Haskalah: The Students of the Vilna Gaon Chapter Six: The Torah and the People: “Positive Historical” Judaism Introduction The General Social and Philosophical-Historical Background of the Conservative Movement: The Influence of Herder and Savigny Adapting Halakha to the Needs and Will of the People: Zechariah Frankel’s Doctrine Divine Providence and Ethical Mission in Jewish History: The Teaching of Heinrich Graetz Chapter Seven: The Drive for Unity in the East-European Haskalah and the Turn to Zionism Introduction Defense of Hasidism and Halakha from a Maskilic Point of View: The Peace Making of Eliezer Zweifel Relation of Religion and Nation in Judaism and the Way to Spiritual Zionism: The Peregrinations of Peretz Smolenskin’s Thought The Dawn of Religious Nationalism: Jehiel Michal Pines From “Spiritual Nationality” to Secular “Natural Nationality”: Exacerbating the Controversy in the Teaching of Moses Leib Lilienblum Glossary Bibliography Index

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Eliezer Schweid, recipient of the prestigious Israel prize (1994) as well as two honorary degrees, is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He has published over 40 books on Jewish thought of all periods and contemporary topics and has commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. Leonard Levin (translator-annotator) has taught Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York.

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