LEADER 04844 am 22006253u 450 001 996309058303316 005 20231110212520.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110530797 035 $a(CKB)4100000002260356 035 $a(OAPEN)1002583 035 $a(DE-B1597)475003 035 $a(OCoLC)1024017303 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110530797 035 $aEBL6978381 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6978381 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6978381 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002260356 100 $a20190723d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aConverts of Conviction $eFaith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society /$fDavid B. Ruderman 210 $aBerlin, Germany$cDe Gruyter$d2017 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (115) 225 0 $aStudies and Texts in Scepticism ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-053079-1 311 $a3-11-048714-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction / $rRuderman, David B. -- $tReformers, Missionaries, and Converts: Interactions Between the London Society and Jews in Warsaw in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / $rJagodzi?ska, Agnieszka -- $tJerusalem Letters: Vasily Levison's Ruminations on Faith, Doubt, and Conversion from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy / $rSchainker, Ellie R. -- $tThe Intellectual and Spiritual Journey of Stanislaus Hoga: From Judaism to Christianity to Hebrew Christianity / $rRuderman, David -- $tThe Divergent Path of Two Brothers: The Jewish Scholar David Cassel and the Protestant Missionary Paulus Cassel / $rWiese, Christian -- $tThe Authors of this Volume -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of Names and Places -- $tSubject Index 330 $aThe study of Jewish converts to Christianity in the modern era has long been marginalized in Jewish historiography. Labeled disparagingly in the Jewish tradition as meshumadim (apostates), many earlier Jewish scholars treated these individuals in a negative light or generally ignored them as not properly belonging any longer to the community and its historical legacy. This situation has radically changed in recent years with an outpouring of new studies on converts in variegated times and places, culminating perhaps in the most recent synthesis of modern Jewish converts by Todd Endelman in 2015. While Endelman argues that most modern converts left the Jewish fold for economic, social, or political reasons, he does acknowledge the presence of those who chose to convert for ideological and spiritual motives. The purpose of this volume is to consider more fully the latter group, perhaps the most interesting from the perspective of Jewish intellectual history: those who moved from Judaism to Christianity out of a conviction that they were choosing a superior religion, and out of doubt or lack of confidence in the religious principles and practices of their former one. Their spiritual journeys often led them to suspect their newly adopted beliefs as well, and some even returned to Judaism or adopted a hybrid faith consisting of elements of both religions. Their intellectual itineraries between Judaism and Christianity offer a unique perspective on the formation of modern Jewish identities, Jewish-Christian relations, and the history of Jewish skeptical postures. The approach of the authors of this book is to avoid broad generalizations about the modern convert in favor of detailed case studies of specific converts in four distinct localities: Germany, Russia, Poland, and England, all living in the nineteenth- century. In so doing, it underscores the individuality of each convert's life experience and self-reflection and the need to examine more intensely this relatively neglected dimension of Jewish and Christian cultural and intellectual history. 410 0$aStudies and Texts in Scepticism 606 $aJudaism$2bicssc 606 $aJudaism: life & practice$2bicssc 606 $aReligious groups: social & cultural aspects$2bicssc 610 $aConverts. 610 $aMissionaries. 615 7$aJudaism 615 7$aJudaism: life & practice 615 7$aReligious groups: social & cultural aspects 676 $a290 686 $aNY 1800$2rvk 700 $aRuderman $b David B$4edt$0475931 702 $aRuderman$b David B., 712 02$aDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996309058303316 996 $aConverts of Conviction$93589058 997 $aUNISA