The legacy of German Jewry /
This volume is a comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience. Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy and critical thought in a new light.
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Origins of the modern
- The breakthrough to modernity
- The role of German Jewry
- Historical stages
- Equal rights, not assimilation!
- Steps toward emancipation
- Gabriel Riesser's greatest deed
- Emancipation's greatest foe
- The final step to emancipation
- A few figures
- The dual legacy of Theodor Herzl
- The lifework of Martin Buber
- The Jewish state and the World Jewish Congress
- The essence of Judaism
- Philosophy out of the sources of Judaism
- World history of the Jewish people
- Science from a Jewish perspective
- Education without end
- Jewish literature
- The empty house and Shofar
- Jewish self-hatred
- The Jewish quest for a German Bible
- Judaism's message of the kingdom of God
- The end
- Sorrow
- Continuity
- The legacy of Germany Jewry.
