Inventing new beginnings [electronic resource] : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culturePublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.Description: x, 428 pISBN:- 9780804760416 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 305.892/4043 22
- DS134.25 .B54 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity ; Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory ; Turning: transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection ; The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re-)turn(-ing) to/of tradition ; The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.
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