The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise

by Michah Gottlieb

Book Overview

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, coincided with Jews' increasing alienation from religion and Jewish nationhood. In fact, Michah Gottlieb argues, this period was one of intense engagement with Jewish texts and traditions. One expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197697666
• ISBN13: 9780197697665
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"