TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yedidya, Asaf
T1  - Enlisted History
T2  - PaRDES : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V.
N2  - Zeev Jawitz (1847–1924) was active in all spheres of culture: history, language, literature and pedagogy, all the while striving for harmonization with the Orthodox outlook. He understood that a people returning to its homeland needed a national culture, one that was both broad and deep, and that the narrow world of the Halakhah would no longer suffice. His main work was the multi-volume Toldot Israel (History of Israel, published 1895–1924) which encompasses Jewish history from its beginning – Patriarchs – until the end of the 19th century. His historical writing, with its emphasis on internal religious Jewish sources, the unity and continuity of Jewish history, and respect of Orthodox principles, comes as an alternative to the historiography of the celebrated historian Heinrich Graetz. The alternative that Jawitz tried to substitute for Wissenschaft des Judentums, was influenced not only by Orthodox ideology, which he supported, but also by his nationalist ideology. He saw himself and his disciples as the “priests of memory,” presenting the true and immanent history and character of the Jewish nation as a platform to the Jewish future in the land of Israel.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41780
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-417808
SP  - 79
EP  - 101
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -