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Chajim H. Steinthal (1823-1899) was one of the most important philosophical linguists and teachers of the āScience of Judaismā. His multilayered and diverse scholarly works sprang from the solid foundation of an exceptionally broad and comprehensive education. Among other things, together with Moritz Lazarus he founded the discipline of Völkerpsychologie (psychology of nations). Steinthal taught mainly at the University of Berlin and the Hochschule (later Lehranstalt) für die Wissenschaft des Judentums.
The volume contains the results of an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism (LEUCOREA Foundation, Wittenberg), the Synagogue Museum Groebzig and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. It presents papers in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, Jewish studies and history as well as an inventory of Steinthal’s papers in Jerusalem.
Contributions by: Dieter Adelmann, Ingrid Belke, Craig Christy, Ivan Kalmar, Bogdan Kovtyk, Cornelie Kunze, Joan Leopold, Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Marion Méndez, Manfred Ringmacher, Silke Schaeper, Hartwig Wiedebach, Giuseppe Veltri.
The volume contains the results of an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism (LEUCOREA Foundation, Wittenberg), the Synagogue Museum Groebzig and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. It presents papers in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, Jewish studies and history as well as an inventory of Steinthal’s papers in Jerusalem.
Contributions by: Dieter Adelmann, Ingrid Belke, Craig Christy, Ivan Kalmar, Bogdan Kovtyk, Cornelie Kunze, Joan Leopold, Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Marion Méndez, Manfred Ringmacher, Silke Schaeper, Hartwig Wiedebach, Giuseppe Veltri.
Price: $221.00
Pages: 286
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Publication Date:
26 April 2002
ISBN: 9789004126459
Format: Hardcover
'This volume adds invaluably to our historical knowledge of the much forgotten but highly significant influence of H. Steinthal in developing the study of modern linguistics and in creating modern Jewish studies. In so doing, this collection of essays raises anew many urgent philosophical questions about the interconnections between language, theology, and politics. Individually the essays are excellent and as a whole the volume is a major contribution to our understanding of European Judaism.'
Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University.
Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University.
Hartwig Wiedebach, Ph.D., University of Zürich, is Researcher at the Moses-Mendelssohn Centre for European-Judaic Studies, University of Potsdam. His most recent publications are Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism. Tradition and the Concept of Origin in Hermann Cohen’s Later Work, with G. Motzkin and H. Holzhey, (Hildesheim, 2000) and Die Bedeutung der Nationalität für Hermann Cohen, (Hildesheim, 1997).
Annette Winkelmann, MA in Judaic Studies, University of Cologne, is Project Manager at the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism and Managing Editor of the Newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies. Her most recent publications are Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century with J. Helm, (Leiden, 2001) and Directory of Jewish Studies in Europe, (Oxford, 1998).
Annette Winkelmann, MA in Judaic Studies, University of Cologne, is Project Manager at the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism and Managing Editor of the Newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies. Her most recent publications are Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century with J. Helm, (Leiden, 2001) and Directory of Jewish Studies in Europe, (Oxford, 1998).