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Author Biemann, Asher D.

Title Inventing new beginnings [electronic resource] : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

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Description x, 428 p.
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933 -- Historiography.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography.
Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804760416 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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