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Author:

Biemann, Asher D.

Title:

Inventing new beginnings : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 428 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Germany--Historiography.--1800-1933--Historiography.
Jews--Germany--Historiography.--1933-1945--Historiography.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-413) and index.

Contents:

Thinking in Renaissance or A grammar of beginnings -- Beginnings : thresholds of continuity -- Beginning anew : the palingenesis of memory -- Turning : transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or The semantics of restoration -- 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.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

ISBN:

0804760411 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804760416 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)232257648

LCCN:

2008026111

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)