Redefining Judaism in an age of emancipation : comparative perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860) /
Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume for the first time interprets the biography and philosophy of the German Jewish thinker Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), shedding new light on a neglected phenomenon of nineteenth century Jewish intellectual history the radical Reform Mo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006
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| Series: | Studies in European Judaism ;
v. 13. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Contributors and Editors
- Introduction
- Part I: Reformer, Scholar, Political Thinker
- "Most of my Brethren Find me Unacceptable": The Controversial Career of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim
- From Nationality to Religion: Samuel Holdheim's Path to the Extreme Side of Religious Reform
- The Politics of Religion in the Thought of Samuel Holdheim
- Holdheim's Seven Years in Schwerin: The Rabbi as an Ecclesiastical Councilor
- Holdheim's Attitude Towards Karaism as Expounded in the Ma'amar ha-'Ishut
- Part II: Holdheim in the Context of the Reform Controversies
- Samuel Holdheim and the German Circumcision Debates, 1843-1876
- Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in Germany
- The Problems of Moderate Reform: The History of the Berlin Liturgical Reforms, 1844-1862
- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the Legal Character of Jewish Marriage: An Overlooked Debate in Nineteenth-Century Liberal Judaism
- Part III: Radical Reform in Comparative Perspective
- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel: Comparative Perspectives
- Holdheim and Zunz: From the Question of Rabbinic Authority to a New Definition of Ceremonial Laws
- Samuel Holdheim and Sigismund Stern: The Clash Between the Dogmatic and Historicist Approach in Classical German Reform Judaism
- True Mosaic Religion: Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdheim and the Reform of Judaism
- Samuel Holdheim's "Most Powerful Comrade in Conviction": David Einhorn and the Debate Concerning Jewish Universalism in the Radical Reform Movement.
