- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
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One Origins of the Modern -
Two The Breakthrough to Modernity -
Three The Role of German Jewry -
Four Historical stages -
Five Equal Rights, Not Assimilation! -
Six Steps Toward Emancipation -
Seven Gabriel Riesser's Greatest Deed -
Eight Emancipation's Greatest Foe -
Nine The Final Step to Emancipation -
Ten A Few Figures -
Eleven The Dual Legacy of Theodor Herzl -
Twelve The Lifework Of Martin Buber -
Thirteen The Jewish State and the World Jewish Congress -
Fourteen The Essence of Judaism -
Fifteen Philosophy Out of the Sources of Judaism -
Sixteen World History of the Jewish People -
Seventeen Science from a Jewish Perspective -
Eighteen Education Without End -
Nineteen Jewish Literature -
Twenty The Empty House and Shofar -
Twenty-One Jewish Self-Hatred -
Twenty-Two The Jewish Quest for a German Bible -
Twenty-Three Judaism's Message of the Kingdom of God -
Twenty-Four The End -
Twenty-Five Sorrow -
Twenty-Six Continuity -
Twenty-Seven The Legacy of German Jewry -
Afterword “My 1933” - Bible Index
- Index
The Essence of Judaism
The Essence of Judaism
- Chapter:
- (p.123) Fourteen The Essence of Judaism
- Source:
- The Legacy of German Jewry
- Author(s):
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter discusses the historical background of the German Jewry's quest to define the essence of Judaism. This quest is one of the most important debates in world Jewish history and this controversy ultimately produced one of the most crucial intellectual breakthroughs and victories of Jewish modernity. The issue started innocently with theologian Adolf Harnack's interdisciplinary lectures in the winter of 1899–1900 where he contrasted Christianity with Judaism to the benefit of the former.
Keywords: essence of Judaism, German Jewry, Jewish modernity, Adolf Harnack, Christianity, Judaism
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
-
One Origins of the Modern -
Two The Breakthrough to Modernity -
Three The Role of German Jewry -
Four Historical stages -
Five Equal Rights, Not Assimilation! -
Six Steps Toward Emancipation -
Seven Gabriel Riesser's Greatest Deed -
Eight Emancipation's Greatest Foe -
Nine The Final Step to Emancipation -
Ten A Few Figures -
Eleven The Dual Legacy of Theodor Herzl -
Twelve The Lifework Of Martin Buber -
Thirteen The Jewish State and the World Jewish Congress -
Fourteen The Essence of Judaism -
Fifteen Philosophy Out of the Sources of Judaism -
Sixteen World History of the Jewish People -
Seventeen Science from a Jewish Perspective -
Eighteen Education Without End -
Nineteen Jewish Literature -
Twenty The Empty House and Shofar -
Twenty-One Jewish Self-Hatred -
Twenty-Two The Jewish Quest for a German Bible -
Twenty-Three Judaism's Message of the Kingdom of God -
Twenty-Four The End -
Twenty-Five Sorrow -
Twenty-Six Continuity -
Twenty-Seven The Legacy of German Jewry -
Afterword “My 1933” - Bible Index
- Index
