Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness
- ISBN-10
- 1904113109
- ISBN-13
- 9781904113102
- Category
- History / Jewish
- Pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Author
- Shmuel Feiner
Description
Shmuel Feinerâ??s innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalahâ??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 Jewsâ??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 developâ??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.
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- 2001-11-01
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- Liverpool University Press
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