Mediating Modernity : Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Modernity through the Eyes of Its Chroniclers: The Scholar as Interpreter and Shaper of Modern Jewish Life -- Part 1. Perspectives on a Scholar of Modern Jewish History -- 1. Michael A. Meyer: An Appreciation -- 2. Michael A. Meyer and His Vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform Rabbinate: A Lifetime of Devotion and Concern -- Part 2. Between Tradition and Modernity -- 3. Michael A. Meyer's Periodization of Modern Jewish History: Revisiting a Seminal Essay -- 4. When Does the Modern Period of the Jewish Calendar Begin? -- 5. The Controversy over the Salvation of the Jews, Turks, and Heathens in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Theological Path to Tolerance? -- 6. The Merchant of Venice and the Theological Construction of Christian Europe -- 7. Toward the Popular Religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew Texts on Sex and Circumcision -- Part 3. The Construction of Modern Jewish History -- 8. Analyzing the Zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as Historian of the Modern Era -- 9. German Historians and the Jews -- 10. The "Return of the Jews to History": Considerations about an Ideological Concept -- 11. Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab Question: A Prescient Gaze into the "New History" -- 12. Jewish Religion and Capitalism -- Part 4. Jewish Communitities Negotiating Modernity -- 13. The Mystical World of Colonial American Jews -- 14. Public Faith and Private Virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites -- 15. Gender, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity in the Fin de Siècle -- 16. Apprenticeships in Work and Love: Jewish Youth Growing Up in Imperial Germany -- 17. Lukewarm Establishment or Militant Religious Ideology? German Liberal Judaism in the 1920s -- Part 5. The Evolving Legacy of Moses Mendelssohn -- 18. Moses Mendelssohn's Dreams and Nightmares.

19. The Construction and Deconstruction of a Jewish Hero: Moses Mendelssohn's Afterlife in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany -- 20. Singing New Songs: Translation as a Metaphor for Modernity -- Part 6. Cultural Explorations in Modern Jewish Life -- 21. Reflections on Jewish Nostalgia in the Era of Globalization -- 22. From Klausner to Oz and Back -- 23. Stumbling Stones: Marks of Holocaust Memory on German Streets -- 24. Is Literary History Possible? Reflections on Literary History -- Selected Bibliography of the Works of Michael A. Meyer -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back_Cover.

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