Title Role model and countermodel : the golden age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation / Carsten Schapkow ; translated by Corey Twitchell.

Publication Info.	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
	©2016

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 305 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Summary	This book uses the parameters of role model and countermodel to analyze the perception of Iberian-Jewish history and culture in German-Jewish remembrance culture during the era of emancipation. It speaks to the significance of intercultural mediation as key to the German-Jewish experience through the lens of this "Golden Age" in Jewish history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
Contents	Iberian-Sephardic culture as intercultural system of reference: between appropriation and disassociation -- The significance of Iberian-Sephardic culture for the Haskalah -- The origins of the science of Judaism: Iberian-Sephardic Jews as bearers of a European cultural tradition -- Jewish historiography and Jewish history in Spain as a countermodel -- Adaptations of the Iberian role and countermodel.
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Language	Translated from the German.
Subject	Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Jews.
	Germany.
	Intellectual life.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Jews -- Germany -- Identity -- 18th century.
	Identity (Philosophical concept)
	Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Jews -- Germany -- Identity -- 19th century.
	Sephardim -- Social life and customs.
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany.
	Sephardim -- Social life and customs.
	Haskalah -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
	Haskalah.
	History.
	Germany -- Ethnic relations.
	Ethnic relations.
	Sephardim.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	Jews -- Cultural assimilation.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Jews -- Intellectual life.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Title	Vorbild und Gegenbild. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015053833
Other Form:	Print version: Role model and countermodel Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498508025 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015034793
ISBN	9781498508032 (electronic book)
	1498508030 (electronic book)
	9781498508025 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	1498508022 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Title Role model and countermodel : the golden age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation / Carsten Schapkow ; translated by Corey Twitchell.

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