Christian Wiese
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The study of Jewish converts to Christianity in the modern era has long been marginalized in Jewish historiography. Labeled disparagingly in the Jewish tradition as meshumadim (apostates), many earlier Jewish scholars treated these individuals in a negative light or generally ignored them as not properly belonging any longer to the community and its historical legacy. This situation has radically changed in recent years with an outpouring of new studies...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Die Herausbildung einer jüdischen Wissenschaftsbewegung, die von der Haskala des späten 18. Jahrhunderts ihren Ausgang nahm und sich im 19. Jahrhundert in der Wissenschaft des Judentums manifestierte, war in vielfacher Hinsicht mit einer allgemeinen Transformation der Wissensordnungen in der Moderne verknüpft und verlieh dieser zugleich erkennbare Prägungen. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes thematisieren diese Entwicklungen vor dem Hintergrund...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther's antisemitism and the...