TY - GEN T1 - The idea of modern Jewish culture T2 - Reference library of Jewish intellectual history. A1 - Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022 A2 - Hadari, Amnon A2 - Levin, Leonard, 1946- LA - English LA - Hebrew PP - Boston PB - Academic Studies Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn762325117 AB - The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a humanly- and not only divinely-mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel. OP - 296 CN - BM195 .S3913 2008eb SN - 1618110381 SN - 9781618110381 SN - 9781934843055 SN - 1934843059 KW - Judaism : History : Modern period, 1750- KW - Jews : Intellectual life. KW - Jews : Identity. KW - Judaism : 20th century. KW - Zionism : Philosophy. KW - Juifs : Vie intellectuelle. KW - Juifs : Identité. KW - Judaïsme : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - RELIGION : Judaism : History. KW - Jews : Identity KW - Jews : Intellectual life KW - Judaism KW - Judaism : Modern period KW - Zionism : Philosophy KW - Since 1750 KW - History ER -