RT Book
T1 The Jewish reformation: Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise
A1 Gottlieb, Michah
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1736777424
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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 425-448
CN BS941
SN 9780199336388
K1 Mendelssohn, Moses : 1729-1786
K1 Zunz, Leopold : 1794-1886
K1 Hirsch, Samson Raphael : 1808-1888
K1 Bible : Old Testament : German : Versions
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Versions, Jewish
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Translating : Germany
K1 Jews : Germany : History : 18th century
K1 Jews : Germany : History : 19th century
K1 Judaism : Germany : History : 18th century
K1 Judaism : Germany : History : 19th century
K1 Germany : Ethnic relations
K1 Germany : Religious life and customs