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When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland-a land of two rivers-he meant to underscore, indeed celebrate, the fact that German-Jewish culture is nurtured by both German culture and the Jewish religious and cultural heritage. In this thought-provoking book, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores through the prism of Rosenzweig's image how German Jews have understood and contended with their twofold spiritual patrimony. He deepens the discussion to consider also how the German-Jewish experience bears upon the general modern experience of living with multiple cultural identities.German Jews assimilated the cultural values of Germany but were not themselves assimilated into German society, Mendes-Flohr contends. Yet, by virtue of their adoption of values sponsored by enlightened German discourse, they were no longer unambiguously Jewish. The author discusses how their identity and cultural loyalty became fractured and how German Jews-like other Jews and indeed like all denizens of the modern world-were obliged to confront the challenges of living with plural identities and cultural affiliations.

Jews --- Identity. --- Cultural assimilation --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Rozentsṿaig, Frants, --- Rozentsṿaig, F. --- Rozentsṿig, Frants, --- Rozenzweig, Franz, --- רוזנזוויג, פרנץ --- רוזנצוויג, פראנץ, --- רוזנצוויג, פרנץ --- רוזנצוויג, פרנץ, --- רוזנצווייג, פראנץ --- רוזנצווייג, פראנץ, --- רוזנצווייג, פרנץ --- רוזנצווייג, פרנץ, --- רוזנצויג, פרנץ, --- רוזנצוייג, פרנץ, --- Germany --- Ethnic relations. --- Identity

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Buber, Martin, - 1878-1965

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From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth and twentieth Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, German Wissenschaft des Judentums had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual understanding and respect. The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.

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World history --- Jewish religion --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Judaism --- History --- Modern period, 1750-.... --- Sources --- Jews - History - 17th century - Sources. --- Jews - History - 18th century - Sources. --- Jews - History - 1789-1945 - Sources.

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Buber, Martin,