The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture

by Eliezer Schweid

Book Overview

The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934843059
• ISBN13: 9781934843055
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"