TY - BOOK AU - Wiese,Christian TI - Redefining Judaism in an age of emancipation: comparative perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860) T2 - Studies in European Judaism, SN - 9789047410393 AV - BM755.H646 R43 2006eb U1 - 296.8/341092 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Holdheim, Samuel, KW - Reform Judaism KW - Germany KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Judaïsme réformé KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - RELIGION KW - Judaism KW - Reform KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Liberaal jodendom KW - gtt KW - Duitsland N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-410) and index; Abbreviations -- Contributors and Editors -- Introduction -- Part I: Reformer, Scholar, Political Thinker -- "Most of my Brethren Find me Unacceptable": The Controversial Career of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim -- From Nationality to Religion: Samuel Holdheim's Path to the Extreme Side of Religious Reform -- The Politics of Religion in the Thought of Samuel Holdheim -- Holdheim's Seven Years in Schwerin: The Rabbi as an Ecclesiastical Councilor -- Holdheim's Attitude Towards Karaism as Expounded in the Ma'amar ha-'Ishut -- Part II: Holdheim in the Context of the Reform Controversies -- Samuel Holdheim and the German Circumcision Debates, 1843-1876 -- Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in Germany -- The Problems of Moderate Reform: The History of the Berlin Liturgical Reforms, 1844-1862 -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the Legal Character of Jewish Marriage: An Overlooked Debate in Nineteenth-Century Liberal Judaism -- Part III: Radical Reform in Comparative Perspective -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel: Comparative Perspectives -- Holdheim and Zunz: From the Question of Rabbinic Authority to a New Definition of Ceremonial Laws -- Samuel Holdheim and Sigismund Stern: The Clash Between the Dogmatic and Historicist Approach in Classical German Reform Judaism -- True Mosaic Religion: Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdheim and the Reform of Judaism -- Samuel Holdheim's "Most Powerful Comrade in Conviction": David Einhorn and the Debate Concerning Jewish Universalism in the Radical Reform Movement N2 - Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume for the first time interprets the biography and philosophy of the German Jewish thinker Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), shedding new light on a neglected phenomenon of nineteenth century Jewish intellectual history the radical Reform Movement that started in Germany and culminated in the American Jewish Reform ideology. Leading scholars of modern Jewish history and thought from Germany, France, Belgium and the United States present a thorough reading of Holdheim's influential writings in the broader context of the debates within German Jewry about the modernization of Jewish identity in an age of political emancipation and cultural integration, including such controversial issues as the authority of the rabbinical tradition or the reinterpretation of the ceremonial laws UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=232478 ER -