Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian Lands: Institutions, Protagonists, Topics, Context, and Current Challenges

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Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian Lands

Institutions, Protagonists, Topics, Context, and Current Challenges

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Volume 141 | Studia Judaica

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The volume covers multifarious aspects of Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian speaking lands, including the role of Jewish scholarship in modernizing Jewish life and the institutional background of Jewish Studies in Hungarian lands; the contribution of individual scholars to Wissenschaft des Judentums , particular themes in the work of Jewish Studies scholars with Hungarian background; and the legacy of Hungarian Wissenschaft des Judentums outside of Hungary.

The volume is devoted to Tamás [Sinai] Turán, in recognition of his significant contributions to Jewish studies in Hungary.

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Viktória Bányai and Gábor Buzási, Budapest, Hungary; Stefan Schorch, Jerusalem, Israel; Tamás Visi, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

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Introduction
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Viktória Bányai, Gábor Buzási, Stefan Schorch and Tamás Visi

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Part 1: Institutions
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Institutionalising Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary
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Mirjam Thulin

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Efforts by Neolog Rabbis to Create Their Own Organisation at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries in Hungary
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Gábor Schweitzer

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Festschriften and the Historiography of Hungarian Wissenschaft des Judentums
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Katalin Franciska Rac

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Simon Bacher’s Hebrew Translations of Hungarian Nationalist Poems
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Stefan Schorch

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Notes on Ignaz Goldziher’s “Diary” (Tagebuch)
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István Ormos

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Eduard Mahler and Ignaz Goldziher
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Tamás Biró

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Samuel Kohn and His Contribution to Samaritan Studies
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József Zsengellér

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Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Jewish Tombstones
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Viktória Bányai and István Balogh

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Wilhelm Bacher on the Rebuilding of the Temple in the Year of the First Zionist Conference (1897)
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Gábor Buzási

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Ignaz Goldziher’s Idiosyncratic Outline of the History of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
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Ottfried Fraisse

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Orthodox Centrism
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Carsten L. Wilke

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Schism in Máramarossziget in the 1880s
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Judit Kónya

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Dueling Days of Mourning
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Michael L. Miller

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The History and Provenance of the Hebrew Manuscript Collection in the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary Library
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Balázs Tamási

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Museumswissenschaft as Wissenschaft des Judentums
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Zsuzsanna Toronyi

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9783119142847

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112221488

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Keywords for this book

Wissenschaftdes Judentums; Hungary; Judaism (Religion); History of Judaism

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Researchers, Postgraduates

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Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian Lands

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Frontmatter

Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Institutionalising Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary

Efforts by Neolog Rabbis to Create Their Own Organisation at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries in Hungary

Festschriften and the Historiography of Hungarian Wissenschaft des Judentums

Simon Bacher’s Hebrew Translations of Hungarian Nationalist Poems

Notes on Ignaz Goldziher’s “Diary” (Tagebuch)

Eduard Mahler and Ignaz Goldziher

Samuel Kohn and His Contribution to Samaritan Studies

Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Jewish Tombstones

Wilhelm Bacher on the Rebuilding of the Temple in the Year of the First Zionist Conference (1897)

Ignaz Goldziher’s Idiosyncratic Outline of the History of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy

Orthodox Centrism

Schism in Máramarossziget in the 1880s

Dueling Days of Mourning

The History and Provenance of the Hebrew Manuscript Collection in the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary Library

Museumswissenschaft as Wissenschaft des Judentums

Personal Names

Place Names

Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian Lands

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Institutionalising Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary

Efforts by Neolog Rabbis to Create Their Own Organisation at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Hungary

Festschriften and the Historiography of Hungarian Wissenschaft des Judentums

Simon Bacher’s Hebrew Translations of Hungarian Nationalist Poems

Notes on Ignaz Goldziher’s “Diary” (Tagebuch)

Eduard Mahler and Ignaz Goldziher

Samuel Kohn and His Contribution to Samaritan Studies

Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Jewish Tombstones

Wilhelm Bacher on the Rebuilding of the Temple in the Year of the First Zionist Conference (1897)

Ignaz Goldziher’s Idiosyncratic Outline of the History of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy

Orthodox Centrism

Schism in Máramarossziget in the 1880s

Dueling Days of Mourning

The History and Provenance of the Hebrew Manuscript Collection in the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary Library

Museumswissenschaft as Wissenschaft des Judentums

Personal Names

Place Names

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Efforts by Neolog Rabbis to Create Their Own Organisation at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries in Hungary