From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Isaac Breuer and the History of the Secession Dispute in Modern Jewish Orthodoxy (Studies in European Judaism): 6 (Studies in Jewish History and Culture) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9004128387 ISBN 13: 9789004128385

Publisher: Brill, 2002

Synopsis

During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s, the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews of his community to exercise a right given by Prussian law: to withdraw from the united community which was dominated by Reform forces in order to belong only to a separate Orthodox community, founded according to Jewish law (Halakha). This work investigates the significance of these events for Orthodox Judaism in the 20th century. Focussing on the philosophy of Isaac Breuer, the grandson of Hirsch, Frankfurt attorney, novelist and co-founder of the Orthodox world movement Agudat Israel, this book describes the dilemmas of observant Jewry vis-a-vis the secularist Zionist movement. It shows the genesis modern Jewish Orthodoxy and helps to understand its activities, in a new "Kulturkampf", in the state of Israel until today.

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Synopsis:

During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s, the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews to exercise a right given by Prussian law - to withdraw from the united community which was dominated by Reform forces in order to belong only to a separate Orthodox community, founded according to Jewish law (Halakha). This work investigates the significance of these events. It shows the genesis modern Jewish Orthodoxy and helps to understand its activities, in a new "Kulturkampf", in the state of Israel until the present.

About the Author:

Matthias Morgenstern is Lecturer for Hebrew at the University of Tubingen and is Lecturer for Jewish Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He has published Kampf um den Staat. Religion und Nationalismus in Israel (Frankfurt am Main, 1990) and Theater und zionistischer Mythos. Eine Studie zum zeitgenossischen hebraischen Drama mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Werkes von Joshua Sobol

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004128387
• ISBN 13: 9789004128385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400