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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

Miller, Moshe Y.

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Series: Jews and Judaism: History and Culture

Biographies GeneralJudaismGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0817361294
ISBN13: 9780817361297
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century

In Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation, Moshe Miller contends that nineteenth-century German Jews of all denominations actively sought acceptance within German society and aspired to achieve full emancipation from the many legal strictures on their status as citizens and residents. While non-Orthodox Jews sought a large measure of cultural assimilation, Orthodox Jews were content with more delimited acculturation, but they were no less enthusiastic about achieving emancipation and acceptance in German society. There was one issue, though, which was seen by non-Jewish critics of emancipation as a barrier to granting civic rights to Jews: namely, the alleged tribalism of Judaism and the supposedly chauvinistic notion of Jews as the Chosen People.

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