04262nam 2200625 450 991081893360332120200520144314.00-8143-3993-X(CKB)3710000000087759(EBL)3416578(SSID)ssj0001115700(PQKBManifestationID)11709005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115700(PQKBWorkID)11083187(PQKB)11164468(OCoLC)608885314(MdBmJHUP)muse28169(Au-PeEL)EBL3416578(CaPaEBR)ebr10836363(OCoLC)923512224(MiAaPQ)EBC3416578(EXLCZ)99371000000008775920071128h20082008 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrMediating modernity challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer /edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael BrennerDetroit :Wayne State University Press,[2008]©20081 online resource (396 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8143-3395-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. Strauss -- Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch -- Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson -- Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman -- When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach -- The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg -- The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel -- Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski -- Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann -- German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer -- The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel -- Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers -- Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai -- The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman -- Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman -- Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein -- Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner -- The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner -- Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy -- Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen -- From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band -- Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz -- Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.JewsIdentityHistoryJewsHistory1789-1945EnlightenmentReform JudaismHistoryJewsIdentityHistory.JewsHistoryEnlightenment.Reform JudaismHistory.909/.0976608Strauss Lauren B1640624Brenner Michael1964-475906Meyer Michael A282115MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818933603321Mediating modernity3984253UNINA