210042834

Inventing new beginnings : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann

Biemann, Asher D.,i1969-

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2009

X, 428 S.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Thinking in Renaissance or A grammar of beginnings -- Beginnings : thresholds of continuity -- Beginning again : 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 re-aestheticization of Judaism

978-0-8047-6041-6

NY 4620

 

Deutschland  Juden  Geistesleben  Geschichte 1800-1945