The Jewish Reformation : Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise

Oxford University Press Inc

The Jewish ReformationBible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise\nAuthor(s): Michah Gottlieb\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197697665, 978-0197697665\nSynopsis\nIn the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, coincided with Jews' increasing alienation from religion and Jewish nationhood. In fact, Michah Gottlieb argues, this period was one of intense engagement with Jewish texts and traditions. One expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. \n\nExploring Bible translations by Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch.