TY - BOOK ID - 31218988 TI - The German-Jewish experience revisited AU - Aschheim, Steven E. AU - Liska, Vivian AU - Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem PY - 2015 SN - 3110393328 311036719X 3110372932 3110578611 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - History KW - Identity. KW - Social conditions. KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - German-Jewish Intellectuals. KW - Jewish Modernity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31218988 AB - In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience - their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews - and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry. ER -