02848nam 22006734a 450 991077852770332120230721023303.00-8047-7045-X10.1515/9780804770453(CKB)1000000000817670(EBL)912100(OCoLC)793166865(SSID)ssj0000339321(PQKBManifestationID)11284956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339321(PQKBWorkID)10323903(PQKB)10331593(MiAaPQ)EBC912100(DE-B1597)563695(DE-B1597)9780804770453(Au-PeEL)EBL912100(CaPaEBR)ebr10316001(OCoLC)1198929871(EXLCZ)99100000000081767020080611d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInventing new beginnings[electronic resource] on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism /Asher D. BiemannStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20091 online resource (638 p.)Stanford studies in Jewish history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-6041-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.An inquiry into the meaning of ""renaissance"" in modern Jewish thought, its place in the philosophical tradition of the West, and its moral possibilities.Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.JewsGermanyHistory1800-1933HistoriographyJewsGermanyHistory1933-1945HistoriographyJewsGermanyIntellectual life19th centuryJewsGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryJewsCultural assimilationGermanyJewsHistoryHistoriography.JewsHistoryHistoriography.JewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual lifeJewsCultural assimilation305.892/4043Biemann Asher D1480310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778527703321Inventing new beginnings3696886UNINA