Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary : The ,Science of Judaism' Between East and West.

Intro -- Contents -- Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary: An Introduction -- Testimonies -- The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and Oriental Studies in Hungary -- The Rabbinical Seminary and the War Years. An Interview with Chief Rabbi József Schweitzer -- Was R. Saadia Gaon's Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch Meant for Muslims Too? -- Elective Affinities -- From Talmud Torah to Oriental Studies: Itineraries of Rabbinical Students in Hungary -- Scholarship and Patriotism: Research on the History of Hungarian Jewry and the Rabbinical Seminary of Hungary-the First Decades -- Suspension Bridge of Confidence: Folklore Studies in Jewish-Hungarian Scholarship -- Transnational Connections -- Beyond the Classroom: The Enduring Relationship between Heinrich L. Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher -- Connecting Centers of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David Kaufmann in Budapest, 1877-1899 -- The International Context of Samuel Krauss's Scholarship: Network Connections between East and West -- Figures -- Re-Orientalism -- From Geiger to Goldziher: Historical Method and its Impact on the Conception of Islam -- Academic Religion: Goldziher as a Scholar and a Jew -- From Bacher to Telegdi: The Lure of Iran in Jewish Studies -- Untrodden Paths -- Meir Friedmann-A Pioneering Scholar of Midrash -- Adolf Büchler and the Historiography of Talmudic Judaism -- Georges Vajda's Contribution to the Study of the Kabbalah -- Political Confrontations -- Hungarian Expectations and Jewish Self-Definitions, 1840-1914 -- Defending the Dignity of Judaism: Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Christian Prejudice, Racial Antisemitism, and the Exclusion of Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1880-1914 -- The Decades of an Ending: The Budapest Rabbinical Seminary after the Shoah -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- The Authors.

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