TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise
A1  - Gottlieb, Michah, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5524760
AB  - "Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--
SN  - 9780199336388 kovakantinen
KW  - Mendelssohn, Moses, : 1729-1786.
KW  - Zunz, Leopold, : 1794-1886.
KW  - Hirsch, Samson Raphael, : 1808-1888.
KW  - Hirsch, Samson Raphael, : 1808-1888
KW  - Mendelssohn, Moses, : 1729-1786
KW  - Zunz, Leopold, : 1794-1886
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament. : German : Versions.
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament : Versions, Jewish.
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament : Translating : Germany.
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Jews : Germany : History : 18th century.
KW  - Jews : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Judaism : Germany : History : 18th century.
KW  - Judaism : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Jews
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Germany : Ethnic relations.
KW  - Germany : Religious life and customs.
KW  - Germany
ER  -