Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in by Asher Biemann

By Asher Biemann

Inventing New Beginnings is the 1st book-length research to ascertain the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured a lot of German-speaking Jewry among 1890 and 1938. The e-book addresses very primary, but hitherto surprisingly understated, questions: What did the time period "renaissance" truly suggest to the intellectuals and ideologues of the "Jewish Renaissance," and the way did this figuring out relate to wider currents in eu highbrow and cultural heritage of the 19th and early 20th centuries? It additionally addresses the bigger query of the way we will give some thought to "renaissance" as a method of concept that's conditioned via the cognizance and event of modernity and that extends to our current time.

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