From Rebel to Rabbi - Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Zusatztext "In his intelligent and well-written monograph, Matthew Hoffman is the first scholar to juxtapose the treatment of Jesus by maskilim, Yiddish writers, and Jewish visual artists His book offers a penetrating analysis of a controversial and still relevant phenomenon. It is a crucial new contribution to the study of modern Jewish history, Yiddish literature, and Jewish-Christian relations." Informationen zum Autor Matthew Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Franklin & Marshall College. Klappentext "From Rebel to Rabbi is a comprehensive exploration of the figure of Christ in Yiddish and Hebrew literature and in modern Jewish art. Matthew Hoffman explores the intriguing and highly controversial ways in which Jewish culture was able to address the ideological fault lines of modernity through considerations of Jesus, the Jew. In representing Jesus to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, writers and artists often sought to subvert dominant (Christian) European culture while also placing Jews in the very center of that culture." --Anita Norich, University of Michigan Zusammenfassung This book examines the ways modern Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists appropriated the figure of Jesus as part of the process of creating modern Jewish culture.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Hoffman, Matthew (Assistant Professor of Judaic St Hoffman
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2007
• EAN: 9780804753715
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5371-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism