Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany. Translated from the German.

Wiese, Christian

ISBN 10: 9004119620 / ISBN 13: 9789004119628

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2005

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Octavo. xx, 577, (3)pp. Index and 90 page bibliography. Text in English. Aqua buckram lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances-the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation-on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology. (Publisher) Contents: Foreword by Susannah Heschel -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE CONTEXT OF THE ENCOUNTERS AND CONTROVERSIES -- Chapter One: The Political and Social Situation of the Jewish Community in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890â??1914 -- 1. The Collapse of the Jewish Coalition with Liberalism and the Spread of Modern Anti-Semitism -- 2. The Remaining Limitations of the Emancipation of the Jews and Judaism -- 3. The Assimilation Crisis and Tendencies toward Recollecting Jewish Identity -- 3.1. Assimilation, Acculturation, and German-Jewish Subculture; 3.2. Defense Work between Trotzjudentum and Jewish Renaissance3.3. Self-Emancipation â?? the Impulse of the Zionist Movement -- Chapter Two: The Self-Conception and Research Conditions of Jewish Studies -- 1. The Beginnings and Development of Jewish Studies in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Profile and Scholarly Self-Understanding of the Educational Institutions of Jewish Studies -- 2.1. Positive-Historical Judaism â?? the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau -- 2.2. Liberal Judaism â?? The Lehranstalt fÃ?r die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin; 2.3. Torah and Scholarship â?? The Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin3. The Conditions of Jewish Studies' Encounter with Protestant Theology -- 3.1. Jewish Research between Discrimination and Claim to Relevance -- 3.2. Jewish Studies and Defense Work against Anti-Semitism -- PART TWO THE PERCEPTION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY -- Chapter Three: Jewish Studies and the Protestant Mission to the Jews, 1880â??1914 -- 1. The Jewish Perception of Protestant Allies in the Debate with Anti-Semitism, 1880â??1890; 1.1. The Contemporary Context: Demonization of Judaism through Anti-Talmud Propaganda and Accusations of Ritual Murder1.2. The Defense of Jewish Morality as Reflected in the Debate between David Hoffmann and Gustaf Dalman, 1886/1894 -- 2. Love of Israel? â?? Jewish Refutation of Franz Delitzsch's Concept of the Mission to the Jews and the Limits of Christian Solidarity, 1880â??1890 -- 2.1. Delitzsch's Controversy with Abraham Berliner over the Instituta Judaica, 1884/85; 2.2. The Debate of Jewish Scholars with Delitzsch's Ernste Fragen an die Gebildeten jÃdischer Religion, 1888/893. An Honest Friend of Judaism â?? The Significance of Hermann L. Strack from the Perspective of Jewish Studies -- 3.1. Herculean labor â?? Strack's Refutation of the Anti-Semitic Disparagement of the Jewish Religion -- 3.2. Appreciation of Strack's Scholarly Activity in the Area of Jewish Studies -- 4. We May Not Bite the Hand that Feeds Us â?? Interpretation of the Relationship between Jewish Studies and the Mission to the Jews Volume 10 of the Brill series, "Studies in European Judaism." (SEJ).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany. Translated from the German.
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004119620
• ISBN 13: 9789004119628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First English language edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

This first comprehensive analysis of the relationship between Jewish Studies and Protestant theology in Wilhelmine Germany challenges accepted opinions and contributes to a differentiated image of Jewish intellectual history as well as Jewish-Christian relations before the Holocaust.

About the Author

Christian Wiese, Ph.D. (1997) in Protestant Theology, is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Erfurt University and taught at McGill University in Montreal and Dartmouth College. He has published extensively on Modern Jewish History and Thought, including Hans Jonas. ‚Zusammen Philosoph und Jude?, (Frankfurt a. M. 2003).