Role model and countermodel : the golden age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation / / Carsten Schapkow ; translated by Corey Twitchell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797737703321
• Autore: Schapkow Carsten <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4985-0803-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/404309033
• Soggetti: Jews - Germany - Intellectual life - 18th century; Jews - Germany - Identity - 18th century; Jews - Germany - Intellectual life - 19th century; Jews - Germany - Identity - 19th century; Sephardim - Social life and customs; Germany Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes; 1 Iberian-Sephardic Culture as Intercultural System of Reference; Historical Foundations: Jewish History and Culture in Ancient Spain; Jewish History under Muslim Rule in al-Andalus; Jews in Christian Spain; Forms of Perception in German Jewish Culture; Methodological Approach and State of Research; Notes; 2 The Significance of Iberian-Sephardic Culture for the Haskalah; The Haskalah as an Era of Upheaval; Dohm's On the Civil Improvement of the Jews; History of Its Reception: Dohm's Memorandum; Educational Programs of the Maskilim and the Sephardic Model in AmsterdamThe German Jewish Press in the Haskalah and the Iberian-Sephardic Ideal; Biographies of Famous Men; Moses Maimonides; Maimonides' Reception in the Haskalah; Menasseh ben Israel; The Maskilic Reception of Menasseh ben Israel; Representations of Sephardic History in theJournal Sulamith; Notes; 3 The Origins of the Science of Judaism; Representing German National History, the Jewish ; and non-Jewish Perspectives; The Image of Spain in German Literature and Intellectual History; Johann Gottfried Herder's Idealization ofIberian LiteraturesFichte's Nationalism: The Free German Volkand the Jews; Novalis: Christianity as PoliticalRegulatory Factor; Rühs and Fries Attacks and Saul Ascher's Response; Counter-Images to the Concept of Nation in the "Society for Jewish Culture and Science"; Saul Ascher's Polemical Antithesis; Leopold Zunz's Organism Theory: The Example of Iberian-Sephardic Culture; Isaak Markus Jost and his Political History of the Sephardic Jews; Notes; 4 Jewish Historiography and Jewish History in Spain as a Countermodel; Jewish History as Reflected in Heinrich Graetz's Depictions of Iberian-Sephardic andPolish-Jewish LifeGraetz's Construction of Jewish History and the Myth of al-Andalus; Graetz's Portrayal of Polish Jewish Life; Reception History since Mendelssohn; Abraham Geiger's Interpretation of Iberian-Sephardic History as Counter-History; Geiger and the Science of Judaism; Geiger and the Iberian-Sephardic Role Model; Representation of Poets in Geiger's Works; Notes; 5 Adaptations of the Iberian Role and Countermodel; Jewish Literature and German National Literature: Iberian-Sephardic Authors asIntercultural MediatorsPoint of Departure:Phöbus Philippson's The Marranos; Ludwig Philippson as Writer and Advocate; Iberian-Sephardic History in Ludwig Philippson's Fictional Works; Neo-Orthodox Responses; The Damascus-Affair: Starting Point for Ludwig Philippson's Political Initiative in Spain; The Politics of His Day: Ludwig Philippson's Use of the Iberian-Sephardic Model; The Middle Ages and Its Consequences; Philippson's Petition of 1854; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: This book uses the parameters of role model and countermodel to analyze the perception of Iberian-Jewish history and culture in German-Jewish remembrance culture during the era of emancipation. It speaks to the significance of intercultural mediation as key to the German-Jewish experience through the lens of this "Golden Age" in Jewish history.