TY  - JOUR
A1  - Salzer, Dorothea M.
T1  - Adam, Eve, and Jewish Children: Rewriting the Creation of Eve for the Jewish Young at the Beginning of Jewish Modernization
JF  - The Jewish quarterly review
N2  - At the end of the 18th century, the Jewish enlighteners invented the Genre of Jewish German Children’s Bibles in their aim to reform the Jewish education system in German speaking areas. This paper initially provides a short introduction to some of the main features of the genre. Subsequently, the story of Eve’s creation as it appears in two of its earliest representatives, Peter Beer’s Sefer toledot yisra’el (1796) and Immanuel Moritz Neumann’s Sefer torat ha-elohim (1816), is analyzed and compared, exploring the literary and interpretative strategies of the two authors in their respective contemporary contexts. Finally, the paper illustrates some of the contributions of Jewish Children’s Bibles to our understanding of the Haskala and the early stages of Jewish modernization.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2016.0029
SN  - 0021-6682
SN  - 1553-0604
VL  - 106
SP  - 396
EP  - 411
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -