- 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 Breakthrough to Modernity
The Breakthrough to Modernity
- Chapter:
- (p.30) Two The Breakthrough to Modernity
- Source:
- The Legacy of German Jewry
- Author(s):
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter discusses the historical background of the Jews' entry to modernity. It can be said that modernity has begun for Judaism in 1783. This accomplishment may be attributed to two achievements of Judaism on its own and one external event. These achievements are Moses Mendelssohn' translation of the Hebrew Bible into German and the publication of his treatise Jerusalem, or on the Religious Power of Judaism, which served as a declaration of independence in its own. The external event is the victory of the US in its revolutionary war and its proclamation that all men were created equal.
Keywords: Jews, modernity, Judaism, Moses Mendelssohn, Hebrew Bible, Jerusalem
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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
