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Inventing new beginnings : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.
LIBRA DS134.25 .B54 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biemann, Asher D.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933--Historiography.
- Jews.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Historiography.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Intellectual life.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- x, 428 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Beginnings: thresholds of continuity
- Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory
- Turning: transformations into the open
- The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection
- The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re-)turn(-ing) to/of tradition
- The unfinishedness of return: Renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-413) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804760411
- 9780804760416
- OCLC:
- 232257648
- Publisher Number:
- 40016381557
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