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Renewing the past, reconfiguring Jewish culture : from al-Andalus to the Haskalah / edited by Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe.

Contributor(s): Brann, Ross, 1949- | Sutcliffe, Adam | University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish culture and contexts: Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004Description: viii, 237 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0812237420 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Civilization -- Congresses | Jews -- Spain -- Civilization -- Congresses | Jews -- Italy -- Civilization -- Congresses | Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Jewish philosophy -- Congresses | Haskalah -- Germany -- Congresses | Jews -- Civilization -- Historiography -- CongressesDDC classification: 909/.04924 LOC classification: DS113 | .R43 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Al-Anadalus, enlightenment, and the renewal of the Jewish past / Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann -- Aesthetic models in conflict: classicist versus ornamental in Jewish poetics / Joseph Yahalom -- The uses of Exile in poetic dicourse: some examples from medieval Hebrew literature / Esperanza Alfonso -- Their rose in our garden: romance elements in Hebrew Italian poetry / Dvora Bregman -- The crisis of medieval knowledge in the work of the fifteenth-century poet and philosopher Moses da Rieti / Alessandro Guetta -- Judah Halevi's Kuzari in the Haskalah: the reinterpretation and reimaging of a medieval work / Adam Shear -- The aesthetic difference: Moses Mendelssohn's Kohelet Musar and the inception of the Berlin Haskalah / Jonathan Karp -- Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais's program of Sephardi rabbinic humanism in Victorian America / Arthur Kiron -- Solomon Maimon and his Jewish philosophical predecessors: the evidence of his autobiography / Allan Arkush -- Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn and the fashioning of Jewish philosophical heroism / Adam Sutcliffe -- Strategic friendships: Jewish intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire, and the French revolution / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Hine and Haggadah: history, narration, and tradition in the age of Wissenschaft des Judentums / Jonathan Skolnik.

Papers delivered at a symposium of a seminar at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Al-Anadalus, enlightenment, and the renewal of the Jewish past / Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann -- Aesthetic models in conflict: classicist versus ornamental in Jewish poetics / Joseph Yahalom -- The uses of Exile in poetic dicourse: some examples from medieval Hebrew literature / Esperanza Alfonso -- Their rose in our garden: romance elements in Hebrew Italian poetry / Dvora Bregman -- The crisis of medieval knowledge in the work of the fifteenth-century poet and philosopher Moses da Rieti / Alessandro Guetta -- Judah Halevi's Kuzari in the Haskalah: the reinterpretation and reimaging of a medieval work / Adam Shear -- The aesthetic difference: Moses Mendelssohn's Kohelet Musar and the inception of the Berlin Haskalah / Jonathan Karp -- Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais's program of Sephardi rabbinic humanism in Victorian America / Arthur Kiron -- Solomon Maimon and his Jewish philosophical predecessors: the evidence of his autobiography / Allan Arkush -- Quarreling over Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn and the fashioning of Jewish philosophical heroism / Adam Sutcliffe -- Strategic friendships: Jewish intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire, and the French revolution / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Hine and Haggadah: history, narration, and tradition in the age of Wissenschaft des Judentums / Jonathan Skolnik.

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