Jews And Sciences In German Contexts PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Jews And Sciences In German Contexts PDF full book. Access full book title Jews And Sciences In German Contexts.
Author | : Ulrich Charpa |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9783161491214 |
Download Jews and Sciences in German Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The authors examine the relationship between the cultural, religious and social situation of German Jews on the one hand and their scientific activities on the other. They discuss the sensitive question of the specificity of the approaches of Jewish scientists and draw attention to the debate concerning the relationship between Judaism and academic research, ranging from the early 19th century theorizing on science and Judaism to 20th century issues, e.g. the controversies on 'Jewish' physics, mathematics etc. in the 1920s and 30s. Contributors: Ute Deichmann, Anthony S. Travis, Moritz Epple, Raphael Falk, Ulrich Charpa, Nurit Kirsch, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Aharon Loewenstein, Ruth Sime, Simone Wenkel
Author | : Reut Yael Paz |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004228748 |
Download A Gateway between a Distant God and a Cruel World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars 20th century scholars this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking legal context influenced the international legal discipline.
Author | : David Sorkin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1990-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195362160 |
Download The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The transformation of German Jewry from 1780 to 1840 exemplified a twofold revolution: on one level, the end of the feudal status of Jews as an autonomous community forced them to face a protracted process of political emancipation, a far-reaching social metamorphosis, and growing racial anti-Semitism; yet, on another level, their encounter with the surrounding culture resulted in their own intense cultural productivity. In this ground-breaking study, David Sorkin argues that emancipation and encounter with German culture and society led not to assimilation but to the creation of a new Jewish identity and community--a true and vibrant subculture that produced many of Judaism's modern movements and fostered a pantheon of outstanding writers, artists, composers, scientists, and academics. He contends that German-Jewish subculture was based not, as widely believed, on nationalistic (Jewish versus German) or religious (Jewish versus Christian) disparities, but rather on the struggle for freedom and social acceptance in German society. By studying German Jewry's cultural history in its social and political context, as well as in the larger setting of German history, this study firmly asserts that the subculture both distinguished German Jewry from other European Jewish communities and accounted for its members' prominent role in Jewish and general culture.
Author | : Michael Brenner |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783161480188 |
Download Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms for understanding the processes of Jewish emancipation and acculturation in Western and Central Europe. In the French case, emancipation was achieved during the French Revolution, and it remained in place until 1940, when the Vichy regime came to power. In Germany, emancipation was a far more gradual and piecemeal process, and even after it was achieved in 1871, popular and governmental antisemitism persisted. The essays in this volume, while buttressing many traditional assumptions regarding these two paths of emancipation, simultaneously challenge many others, and thus force us to reconsider the larger processes of Jewish integration and acculturation.
Author | : Anne O. Albert |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081229825X |
Download Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a diverse, global field. From the early expansion of the new scholarly approaches into Jewish publications across Europe to their translation and reinterpretation in the twentieth century, the studies included here collectively trace a path through largely neglected subject matter, newly recognized as deserving attention. Beginning with an introduction that surveys the field's German origins, fortunes, and contexts, the volume goes on to document dimensions of the growth of Wissenschaft des Judentums elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world. Some of the contributions turn to literary and semantic issues, while others reveal the penetration of Jewish studies into new national contexts that include Hungary, Italy, and even India. Individual essays explore how the United States, along with Israel, emerged as a main center for Jewish historical scholarship and how critical Jewish scholarship began to accommodate Zionist ideology originating in Eastern Europe and eventually Marxist ideology, primarily in the Soviet Union. Finally, the focus of the volume moves on to the land of Israel, focusing on the reception of Orientalism and Jewish scholarly contacts with Yemenite and native Muslim intellectuals. Taken together, the contributors to the volume offer new material and fresh approaches that rethink the relationship of Jewish studies to the larger enterprise of critical scholarship while highlighting its relevance to the history of humanistic inquiry worldwide.
Author | : Sander L. Gilman |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612498027 |
Download Jews and Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a range of disciplines, from biology and bioethics to anthropology and genetics. Even the most recent iteration of Jewish studies as an academic discipline—Israel studies—stresses the global cultural, economic, and social impact of Israeli science and medicine. The 2022 volume of the Casden Institute’s Jewish Role in American Life series tackles a range of issues that have evolved with the rise of Jewish studies, throughout its evolution from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary, and now finally as a discipline itself with its own degrees and departments in universities across the world. This book gathers contributions by scholars from various disciplines to discuss the complexity in defining “science” across multiple fields within Jewish studies. The scholars examine the role of the self-defined “Jewish” scholar, discerning if their identification with the object of study (whether that study be economics, criminology, medicine, or another field entirely) changes their perception or status as scientists. They interrogate whether the myriad ways to study Jews and their relationship to science—including the role of Jews in science and scientific training, the science of the Jews (however defined), and Jews as objects of scientific study—alter our understanding of science itself. The contributors of Jews and Science take on the challenge to confront these central problems.
Author | : Noah J. Efron |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2014-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1421413817 |
Download A Chosen Calling Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rejecting the idea that Jews have done well in science because of uniquely Jewish traits, Jewish brains, and Jewish habits of mind, this book approaches the Jewish affinity for science through the geographic and cultural circumstances of Jews who were compelled to settle in new worlds in the early twentieth century.
Author | : Claudia Simone Dorchain |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110265133 |
Download Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The notion of “self” and “other” and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of “self” and “other” and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new insights into topics rarely covered, such as youth culture or humor, and finally discusses the images of Jewish life as realities still to be constructed.
Author | : Christof Mauch |
Publisher | : Max Kade Institute |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download German-Jewish Identities in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Changing political, social, and cultural contexts have led German Jews in America to take on many different identities. On some occasions most of them have associated with German-speaking immigrants to the United States, while at others they have identified themselves more closely with the general American population. Some German Jews have chosen to identify with both American institutions and ideals, and with the landscapes, culture, and religious institutions of their home country or the country of their ancestors, Israel. This book explores these varied German-Jewish identities in America from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines. Essays examine such varied topics as the relationship between German and Eastern European Jews in America, the development of the B'nai B'rith, nineteenth-century Jewish community-building in Chicago, German Jews' role in the building of modern American show business, and the correlation between date of emigration and language loss among Jewish emigrants fleeing to America from Nazi Germany. Although most of the contributors are historians, there are also chapters from a linguist, theater and literature professors, and even an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Book jacket.
Author | : David Jan Sorkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Berlin Haskalah was the Jewish attempt to rearticulate belief to accommodate the new science and philosophy of the Enlightenment. This study argues that the Haskalah should be understood within the context of the wider Central European religious and intellectual changes.