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By Eliezer Schweid, Leonard Levin

ISBN-10: 9004290907

ISBN-13: 9789004290907

The end result of Eliezer Schweid s life-work as a Jewish highbrow historian, this five-volume paintings presents a entire, interdisciplinary account of the key thinkers and events in glossy Jewish inspiration, within the context of basic philosophy and Jewish social-political old advancements, with wide basic resource excerpts. quantity , "The start of the Jewish ancient experiences and the fashionable Jewish non secular Movements," discusses the key Jewish thinkers of imperative and jap Europe earlier than 1881, in reference to the routine they fostered: German-Jewish Wissenschaft (Zunz), Reform (Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Geiger), Neo-Orthodoxy (S. D. Luzzatto, Steinheim, Samson Raphael Hirsch), Positive-Historical (Frankel, Graetz), and Neo-Haredi (Kalischer, Malbim, Hayyim Volozhiner, Salanter). furthermore, broad recognition is given to the thinkers of the east-European Haskalah, either previous (Levinsohn, Rubin, Schorr, Mieses, Abraham Krochmal) and later proto-Zionist thinkers (Zweifel, Smolenskin, Pines, Lilienblum)."

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On this basis he proposed a comparison between Jewish cultural development and that of other peoples. His starting point, however, was the inner continuity of Jewish culture as it appeared from the vantage point of the modern age. The connections with general culture were viewed from within by way of its points of intersection with other cultures and in terms of its own mission: to receive their influences, to influence them, and especially to combine the fruits of their legacies within itself.

Its lessons were needed, but they were derived principally from German philosophy, and they were absorbed into a literature that tended more toward poetry and narrative expressive of the struggles of life, on the one hand, and toward ideological propaganda close to practical life, on the other hand. For these reasons, no extensive philosophical literature was 24 introduction created in eastern Europe after Krochmal. ” CHAPTER ONE THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES In his work, Krochmal developed a philosophical-historical theory for scientific research and dealt with the question of the relation between uncritical traditional learning, which ignored historical difficulties, and the new methods of research.

In this respect, too, he pointed to the reception of outside influences but showed that they were compatible with Jewish culture’s self-appointed destiny. Thus he found the beginnings of a scientific approach in the plain-sense grammatically based scriptural interpretations of the Middle Ages. In particular, he researched the commentaries of Abraham Ibn Ezra, which voiced daringly critical ideas on the shape of authorship and transmission of various biblical books, including even the Pentateuch, in order to reconcile improbabilities and contradictions.

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