Biemann, Asher D.

Inventing new beginnings : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (x, 428 pages). - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity ; Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory ; Turning: transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection ; The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re- )turn( -ing) to/of tradition ; The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.

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Jews--History--Historiography.--Germany--1800-1933
Jews--History--Historiography.--Germany--1933-1945
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--19th century.
Jews--Intellectual life--Germany--20th century.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Jews--Cultural assimilation.
Jews--Historiography.
Jews--Intellectual life.
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