Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-century Germany : Between History and Faith

University of Wisconsin Press

Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-century GermanyBetween History and Faith\nAuthor(s): University of Wisconsin Press\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press, United States\nImprint: University of Wisconsin Press\nISBN-13: 9780299211707, 978-0299211707\nSynopsis\nGerman Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. Nils Roemer challenges this assumption, finding that religious sentiments, concepts, and rhetoric found expression through a newly emerging theological historicism at the center of modern German Jewish culture. Modern German Jewish identity developed during the struggle for emancipation, debates about religious and cultural renewal, and battles against anti-Semitism. A key component of this identity was historical memory, which Jewish scholars had begun to infuse with theological perspectives. After German reunification in the early 1870s, Jewish intellectuals reevaluated their embrace o.