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Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness by Shmuel Feiner (Paperback, 2004)

Shmuel Feiner's invative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalah-the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future and take their place in wider society, but as Jews-without denying their collective identity and without denying their past. Claiming historical legitimacy for their ideology and their vision of the future, they formulated an ethos of modernity that they projected on to the universal and the Jewish past alike. What was the image of the past that the maskilim shaped? What tactics underpinned their use of history? How did their historical awareness change and develop-from the inception of the Haskalah in Germany at the time of Mendelssohn and Wessely, through the centres of Haskalah in Austria, Galicia, and Russia, to the emergence of modern nationalism in the maskilic circles in eastern Europe in the last third of the nineteenth century? These are some of the questions raised in this fascinating exploration of an ideological approach to history which throws a searching new light on the Jewish Enlightenment movement and the emergence of Jewish historical consciousness more generally.

Publisher
Liverpool University Press, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
ISBN-10
1904113109
ISBN-13
9781904113102
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96562596

Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
33mm
Series Title
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Translated by
Chaya Naor,Sondra Silverston
Prizes
Winner of Arnold Wiznitzer Prize for Jewish History 1995.
Author Biography
Shmuel Feiner is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, and responsible for the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia. He is the co-editor (with David Sorkin) of New Perspectives on the Haskalah (2001), also published by the Littman Library, and author of I. E. Kovner, Sefer Hamatsref: An Unknown Maskilic Critic of Jewish Society in Russia in the Nineteenth Century (1998), as well as of various articles on the Haskalah in Germany and eastern Europe.
Date of Publication
01/07/2004
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional

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