Wandering Jews in England’s Green and Pleasant Land: Wissenschaft des Judentums in an Anglo-Jewish Context
There has been an historical tendency to neglect the story of the emergence and development of the historical-critical study of Judaism in the United Kingdom. The British experience has been widely regarded as derivative and less vital when compared with the Wissenschaft des Judentums as found throu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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HUC
2023
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Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 2023, Volume: 94, Pages: 235-282 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Science
/ Bible criticism
/ England
/ History 1840-1940
/ Scientist
/ Jewish studies
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
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| Summary: | There has been an historical tendency to neglect the story of the emergence and development of the historical-critical study of Judaism in the United Kingdom. The British experience has been widely regarded as derivative and less vital when compared with the Wissenschaft des Judentums as found throughout continental Europe and the United States. Undoubtedly, there were few British home-grown scholars of note, but the story is no less interesting for the diversity and vibrant intercourse of the diverse groups and individuals who did relocate to England’s green and pleasant land. This article will set out to provide an outline of the growth of Wissenschaft des Judentums in the British Isles, from the pious precursors in the 1840s to 1860s, to the Prussian and Hungarian émigrés from the 1860s to 1880s who worked with recognisably German scholarly methods and values, to the more complicated period that followed in the 1880s to the 1940s and that included the largely British-born scholarly network that called itself "the Wanderers" alongside the many talented foreign scholars who washed up on British shores and who comprised a varied assortment of catalogers, collectors and others. Along the way, we will consider the extent to which one can speak of distinctive British interests and experiences, and in particular how Jewish scholarship sat within the wider Anglo-Jewish communal and institutional contexts. |
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