Mirjam Thulin

This study concerns David Kaufmann ́s »News Service« as an example of Jewish scholarly networks during the 19th century. David Kaufmann (1852–1899) was a Professor at the Rabbi Seminar in Budapest during the last third of the 19th century and was one of the major influences in the Jewish science movement, known since the 1820s as the Science of Judaism. Using as an example Kaufmann ́s »News Service,« a correspondence network of Jewish authors and scholars, Mirjam Thulin studes the networking strategies of the Jewish scholarly community during that era. The study also provides detailed insights into the many cultural and scientific aspects contained in the history of Jewish knowledge transfer and the Science of Judaism during the 19th century.

Ein jüdisches Gelehrtennetzwerk im 19. Jahrhundert

Kaufmanns Nachrichtendienst

David Kaufmanns »Nachrichtendienst« als Exempel jüdischer Gelehrtennetzwerke im 19. Jahrhundert.

Fabian Klose

This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of “humanity” from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe as well as Europe’s relations to other world regions in the process that shaped “humanity”. They show how this emerging concept led to the overcoming of fundamental divisions in many spheres on the one hand and the formation of new hierarchies on the other.

A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Humanity

Markus Krah

Bianca Pick

The Jewish family has been the subject of much admiration and analysis, criticism and myth-making, not just but especially in modern times. As a field of inquiry, its place is at the intersection – or in the shadow – of the great topics in Jewish Studies and its contributing disciplines. Among them are the modernization and privatization of Judaism and Jewish life;integration and distinctiveness of Jews as individuals and as a group;gender roles and education. These and related questions have been the focus of modern Jewish family research, which took shape as a discipline in the 1910s. This issue of PaRDeS traces the origins of academic Jewish family research and takes stock of its development over a century, with its ruptures that have added to the importance of familial roots and continuities. A special section retrieves the founder of the field, Arthur Czellitzer (1871–1943), his biography and work from oblivion and places him in the context of early 20th-century science and Jewish life. The articles on current questions of Jewish family history reflect the topic’s potential for shedding new light on key questions in Jewish Studies past and present. Their thematic range – from 13th-century Yiddish Arthurian romances via family-based business practices in 19th-century Hungary and Germany, to concepts of Jewish parenthood in Imperial Russia – illustrates the broad interest in Jewish family research as a paradigm for early modern and modern Jewish Studies.

PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. [26 (2020)]

Jewish Families and Kinship in the Early Modern and Modern Eras

Bernd Fischer

Yaakov Ariel

Daniel Weidner

Dennis Bock

Ismar Schorsch

Asaf Yedidya

Eliezer Sariel

Eliezer Brodt

Jonas Engelmann

Nancy Walter

Cornelia Aust

Annett Martini

Sophia Ebert

Rose Stair

Eva-Maria Thüne

Dimitri Bratkin

Benjamin E. Sax

Samuel J. Kessler

Solomon Esther

Michael A. Meyer

PaRDeS, the journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, aims at exploring the fruitful and multifarious cultures of Judaism as well as their relations to their environment within diverse areas of research. In addition, the journal promotes Jewish Studies within academic discourse and reflects on its historic and social responsibilities. PaRDeS, die Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V., erforscht die fruchtbare kulturelle Vielfalt des Judentums sowie ihre Berührungspunkte zur nichtjüdischen Umwelt in unterschiedlichen Bereichen. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung.

Cultures of Wissenschaft des Judentums at 200

Mirjam Thulin

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