Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History.
The article discusses the historical and exegetical debates surrounding the two rabbis responsible for shaping modern Jewish history: Elijah ben Solomon and Moses Mendelssohn. The author reassesses the scholarship that posits ben Solomon as a rabbinic traditionalist and Mendelssohn a reformer. Topic...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 101; no. 3; pp. 347 - 383 |
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| Formato: | Essay |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2011
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the historical and exegetical debates surrounding the two rabbis responsible for shaping modern Jewish history: Elijah ben Solomon and Moses Mendelssohn. The author reassesses the scholarship that posits ben Solomon as a rabbinic traditionalist and Mendelssohn a reformer. Topics include the impact of the demographic situations of Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Berlin, Germany for Jewish theology and the rabbis' exegetical theories in their social contexts. |
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