TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sutcliffe,Adam
TI  - What Are Jews For?: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose 
SN  - 9780691201931
AV  - BM613 .S88 2021
U1  - 296.31172 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Election, Doctrine of
KW  - Historiography
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abraham Geiger
KW  - Age of Enlightenment
KW  - Antinomianism
KW  - Antisemitism (authors)
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Ashkenazi Jews
KW  - Baruch Spinoza
KW  - Christianity and Judaism
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Conversion to Judaism
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Crypto-Judaism
KW  - Cultural Zionism
KW  - David Ben-Gurion
KW  - Franz Rosenzweig
KW  - Gentile
KW  - Gershom Scholem
KW  - Hebrews
KW  - Hermann Cohen
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Islamic–Jewish relations
KW  - Jacques Derrida
KW  - Jewish culture
KW  - Jewish education
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - Jewish identity
KW  - Jewish mysticism
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Jews as the chosen people
KW  - Judah Halevi
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Kabbalah
KW  - Light Unto the Nations
KW  - Lurianic Kabbalah
KW  - Messiah in Judaism
KW  - Messianic Age
KW  - Messianism
KW  - Millenarianism
KW  - Modern history
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Moses Mendelssohn
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Nathan the Wise
KW  - Nazi Party
KW  - Nazism
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pierre Bayle
KW  - Polemic
KW  - Political theology
KW  - Politics
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Rabbinic Judaism
KW  - Radicalism (historical)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Sabbatai Zevi
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Sephardi Jews
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Theology
KW  - Tikkun olam
KW  - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
KW  - Universalism
KW  - Western thought
KW  - Writing
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Introduction. What Are Jews For? History and the Purpose Question --; 1. Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism --; 2. Reason, Toleration, Emancipation --; 3. Teachers and Traders --; 4. Light unto the Nations --; 5. Normalization and Its Discontents --; Conclusion. So What Are Jews For? Jews and Contempor ary Purpose --; Notes --; Index --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access
N2  - A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God’s “chosen people,” but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. What Are Jews For? traces the history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. Adam Sutcliffe delves into the links between Jewish and Christian messianism and the association of Jews with universalist and transformative ideals in modern philosophy, politics, literature, and social thought.The Jews have been accorded a crucial role in both Jewish and Christian conceptions of the end of history, when they will usher the world into a new epoch of unity and harmony. Since the seventeenth century this messianic underlay to the idea of Jewish purpose has been repeatedly reconfigured in new forms. From the political theology of the early modern era to almost all domains of modern thought—religious, social, economic, nationalist, radical, assimilationist, satirical, and psychoanalytical—Jews have retained a close association with positive transformation for all. Sutcliffe reveals the persistent importance of the “Jewish Purpose Question” in the attempts of Jews and non-Jews alike to connect the collective purpose of particular communities to the broader betterment of humanity.Shedding light on questions of exceptionalism, pluralism, and universalism, What Are Jews For? explores an intricate question that remains widely resonant in contemporary culture and political debate
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201931?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201931
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691201931/original
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