Biemann, Asher D.

Inventing new beginnings on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / [electronic resource] : Asher D. Biemann. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. - x, 428 p. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Jews--History--Historiography.--Germany--1800-1933
Jews--History--Historiography.--Germany--1933-1945
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--19th century.
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--20th century.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.


Electronic books.

DS134.25 / .B54 2009eb

305.892/4043

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