Gershom Scholem’s Critical Appropriation of Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Necessary Fiction of Historical Objectivity
- Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) portrayed modern Zionist historical scholarship as both a rejection and a corrective fulfillment of earlier eras of Wissenschaft des Judentums. Through attacks on his scholarly predecessors, Scholem detailed his vision for the potential of this renaissance of Wissenschaft to entail both objective research and a commitment to treating Judaism as a “living organism,” an approach that would ultimately ensure the scholarship could deliver value to the Jewish community. This article will explore the tensions that arise from Scholem’s commitments, his occasional admissions of these tensions, and his attempts to overcome them.
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| Author details: | Rose Stair |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-417902 |
| Title of parent work (German): | PaRDES : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/10/01 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2018/10/11 |
| First page: | 217 |
| Last Page: | 236 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | BD 1680 |
| Organizational units: | Extern / Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. |
| DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Universitätsverlag Potsdam | |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., ISSN 1862-7684 / PaRDeS (2018) 24 / Articles |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
