HUMA 1880 Lecture 11: Lecture 11

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1880
• Professor: Yedida Eisenstat

Document Summary

1819- wissenschaff hep hep riots- positive-historical judaism. Describe one of the gratifications between judaism and traditional kehila? . g ood exam ques tion. Moses mendelssohn (1729-1786) first-generation maskil - thought jews should adopt g erman and reject yiddish, wanted to share a common culture with g ermans. Became a prominent philosopher; head of the berlin j ewish community. Works: the biur, j erusalem- sought to form a harmonious synthesis between traditional j udaism and modern culture; the emancipation ought be granted without condition. Father of reform judaism - instituted aesthetic changes in westphalia in a private service- closed by p russia government. Israel moved to hamburg, started the new isralite . Spiritual leader of reform judaism and a scholar. Employed scholarship to show that instituting reforms was not anathema to judaism. Culture constantly in flux; judaism is sufficiently engaged in its surroundings and flexible enough to respond to the times.