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Inventing new beginnings : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.

Author/creator Biemann, Asher D.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
Descriptionx, 428 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Contents Thinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity ; Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory ; Turning: transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection ; The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re-)turn(-ing) to/of tradition ; The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008026111
ISBN9780804760416 (cloth : alk. paper)

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