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The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise /

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"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at l...

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Main Author: Gottlieb, Michah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786.
Zunz, Leopold, > 1794-1886.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, > 1808-1888.
Bible. > Old Testament. > German > Versions.
Bible. > Old Testament > Versions, Jewish.
Bible. > Old Testament > Translating > Germany.
Bible. > Ancien Testament > Versions juives.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, > 1808-1888
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786
Zunz, Leopold, > 1794-1886
Bible. > Old Testament
Jews > Germany > History > 18th century.
Jews > Germany > History > 19th century.
Judaism > Germany > History > 18th century.
Judaism > Germany > History > 19th century.
Germany > Ethnic relations.
Germany > Religious life and customs.
Allemagne > Vie religieuse.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Judaism
Germany
1700-1899
Electronic books.
History
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Summary:"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 462 pages) ; illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199336401
0199336407
9780199336395
0199336393
9780197527269
0197527264