Adam, Eve, and Jewish Children: Rewriting the Creation of Eve for the Jewish Young at the Beginning of Jewish Modernization
- 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.
Metadaten| Author details: | Dorothea M. Salzer |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2016.0029 |
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| ISSN: | 0021-6682 |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
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| Title of parent work (English): | The Jewish quarterly review |
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| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
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| Place of publishing: | Philadelphia |
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| Publication type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
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| Publication year: | 2016 |
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| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
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| Volume: | 106 |
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| Number of pages: | 16 |
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| First page: | 396 |
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| Last Page: | 411 |
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