The idea of modern Jewish culture [electronic resource] / Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022.

Contributor:

Hadari, Amnon.

Levin, Leonard, 1946-

Series:

Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.

The reference library of Jewish intellectual history

Standardized Title:

Liḳrat tarbut Yehudit modernit. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750-.

Judaism.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Judaism--20th century.

Zionism--Philosophy.

Zionism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a humanly- and not only divinely-mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editor's Preface

Foreword

Chapter One. Culture as a Concept and Culture as an Ideal

Chapter Two. Tensions and Contradiction

Chapter Three. Internalizing the Cultural Ideal

Chapter Four. The Underlying Philosophy of Jewish Enlightenment

Chapter Five. The Meaning of Being a Jewish-Hebrew Maskil

Chapter Six. Crossroads: The Transition from Haskalah to the Science of Judaism

Chapter Seven. The Dialectic between National Hebrew Culture and Jewish Idealistic Humanism

Chapter Eight. The Philosophic Historic Formation of Jewish Humanism: a Modern Guide to the Perplexed

Chapter Nine. The Science of Judaism-Research in Judaism as a Culture

Chapter Ten. The Science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and Historical Positivism.

Chapter Eleven. A Critique of the Science of Judaism and the Cultural Ideal of the Enlightenment

Chapter Twelve. Accelerated Change and Revolution

Chapter Thirteen. The Vision of Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Political Zionism

Chapter Fourteen. The Pioneering (Halutzic) Culture of the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine

Chapter Fifteen. Polar Views on Sources of Jewish Culture

Chapter Sixteen. Alienation from Religion and Tradition

Chapter Seventeen. The Jewish Folk Culture of Eretz Israel

Chapter Eighteen. Judaism as the Totality of a National Historic Culture

Chapter Nineteen. Sanctity and the Jewish National Movement

Chapter Twenty. The Dimension of Sanctity in Pioneering Labor Zionism

Chapter Twenty One. Orthodox Zionist Culture-Sanctifying Modernity

Chapter Twenty Two. Judaism as a Culture in the Diaspora

Chapter Twenty Three. The Secular Jewish Culture of Yiddish

Chapter Twenty Four. The Transition from the Hebrew Culture of Pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli Culture

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-038-1

OCLC:

762325117