Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation : Comparative Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860).

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I REFORMER, SCHOLAR, POLITICAL THINKER -- "Most of My Brethren Find me Unacceptable": The Controversial Career of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim -- From Nationality to Religion: Samuel Holdheim's Path to the Extreme Side of Religious Reform -- The Politics of Religion in the Thought of Samuel Holdheim -- Holdheims Years in Schwerin: The Rabbi as an Ecclesiastical Councilor -- Holdheim's Attitude towards Karaism as Expounded in "Ma'amar Ha-Ishut" -- PART II HOLDHEIM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REFORM CONTROVERSIES -- Samuel Holdheim and the German Circumcision Debates, 1843-1876 -- Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in Germany -- The Problems of Moderate Reform: The History of the Berlin Liturgical Reforms, 1844-1862 -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the Legal Character of Jewish Marriage: An Overlooked Debate in Nineteenth-Century Liberal Judaism -- PART III RADICAL REFORM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel: Comparative Perspectives -- Holdheim and Zunz: From the Question of Rabbinical Authority to a New Definition of the Ceremonial Laws -- Samuel Holdheim and Sigismund Stern: The Clash between the Dogmatic and Historicist Approach in Classical German Reform -- True Mosaic Religion: Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdheim, and the Reform of Judaism -- Samuel Holdheim's "Most Powerful Comrade in Conviction": David Einhorn and the Debate Concerning Jewish Universalism in the Radical Reform Movement -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first comprehensive comparative interpretation of Samuel Holdheim's radical Reform philosophy in the context of the intellectual, cultural, and political experience of mid-nineteenth century German Jewry, provided by leading international scholars in the field of Jewish intellectual history.

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