GERMAN

Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880): The Foundation of an Academic Discipline

By George Y. Kohler

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2019
ISBN
9783110623963, 9783110620375
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3004922 bytes)
Series
Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge; 47
Pages
280\0
Time added
2023-05-24 03:51:46

Description

In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend of Wissenschaft’s neglect for the mystic traditions of Judaism is no longer sustainable. However, the true extent of this enterprise of German Jewish scholars is not yet known. This book will give an overview of what the leading figures have actually achieved: Landauer, Jellinek, Jost, Graetz, Steinschneider and others. It is true that their theological evaluation of the "worth" of kabbalah for what they believed was the ‘essence of Judaism’ yielded overall negative results, but this rejection was rationally founded and rather suggests a true concern for Judaism that transcended their own emancipation and assimilation as German Jews.

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