Haskalah and History : The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness

Haskalah and History : The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 404 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781874774433
  • DDC分類 909.049240072

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Shmuel Feiner'sinnovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired theHaskalah-the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movementadvocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future and take theirplace in wider society, but as Jews-without denying their collective identityand without denying their past. Claiming historical legitimacy for theirideology and their vision of the future, they formulated an ethos of modernitythat they projected on to the universal and the Jewish past alike.What was the image ofthe past that the maskilim shaped? What tactics underpinned their use ofhistory? How did their historical awareness change and develop-from theinception of the Haskalah in Germany at the time of Mendelssohn and Wessely,through the centres of Haskalah in Austria, Galicia, and Russia, to theemergence of modern nationalism in the maskilic circles in eastern Europe inthe last third of the nineteenth century? These are some of the questionsraised in this fascinating exploration of an ideological approach to historywhich throws a searching new light on the Jewish Enlightenment movement and theemergence of Jewish historical consciousness more generally.

Contents

Note on transliteration and conventions used in the textIntroduction`Haskalah' and `History'1. From Traditional History to Maskilic History in Late Eighteenth-Century GermanyAn Enlightened Avant-Garde * The Legitimization of Traditional History * The `Judgement of Reason': Legitimizations for a New History * Rationalistic, Realistic, and Moralistic History * The Modern Period in the Maskilic Picture of the Past * The Pantheon of Historical Heroes * The Dissemination of Maskilic History in the Early Nineteenth Century2. The Manipulation of History in Nineteenth-Century GaliciaThe Galician Maskilim * The Unfolding of Maskilic History * A Natural History of Hasidism * Nahman Krochmal: The Middle-f-the-Road Maskil * Wissenschaft des Judentums in Galicia * The Struggle for Freedom of Thought * Iconoclasm: Attitudes to Religious Reform3. Optimism under Oppression: Maskilic History in Russia, 1825-1855The Idea Yearned to be Realized * A universal History for a Modern Era * The Maskilic Chain of Tradition * The Use of History in Maskilic Propaganda * Political History and Moral History4. Reaching the Masses: The Dissemination of Maskilic HistoryThe Channels of Distribution * Optimistic and Patriotic History * Scientifc Knowledge of the Past * The Autobiography of the Haskalah Movement * Abraham Mapu and the Popularization of Maskilic History * Heroics and Sacred memories in Popular Historical Fiction * Improvement of the Masses: History in Yiddish * Kalman Schulman: The First Professional Popularizer5. Maskilic History in CrisisThe Radical Haskalah: A Loss of Optimism * The Anticlerical Struggle * The Historical Vindication of Hasidism * From `Maskilic History" to `National History'Conclusion: New DirectionsGlossaryBibliographyIndex