In search of the Hebrew people: Bible and nation in the German enlightenment
1. This book considers the image of the Israelite in 18th century Germany. This was important at the time because new concepts of ethnicity, government, civil society, and nation were being articulated. Germans were looking to the Israelites as a basis for remodeling German culture. 2. The author is...
| Summary: | 1. This book considers the image of the Israelite in 18th century Germany. This was important at the time because new concepts of ethnicity, government, civil society, and nation were being articulated. Germans were looking to the Israelites as a basis for remodeling German culture. 2. The author is a post-doctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He has published numerous articles on the history of ideas, German-Jewish relations, and the history of sexuality. He is an essayist and literary critic for El Haaretz, a major Israeli newpaper. 3. This manuscript is a strong fit with our new German Jewish Cultures series. This historical work is important scholarship into the ways German culture and how it used Jewish thought on the eve of modernity. Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Troglodytes, Hottentots, and Hebrews: The Bible and the Sources of German Anthropology -- 2 The Law and the People: Mosaic Law and the German Enlightenment -- 3 The Eighteenth-Century Polemic on the Extermination of the Canaanites -- 4 "Is Judah Indeed the Teutonic Fatherland?" The Hebrew Model and the Birth of German National Culture -- 5 "Lovers of Hebrew Poetry": The Battle over the Bible's Relevance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 025303387X |