David Sorkin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 387916 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Sorkin |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Sorkin |
| ASSINATURA | SORKIN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Merchant Colonies
This chapter discusses the merchant colonies who invited Jewish merchants into their cities on exceptionally propitious terms, constituting the west European region of emancipation. Raison d'état and shifting trade patterns induced governments in such cities as Ancona, Livorno, and Venice to grant Jews extensive privileges of residence and trade, worship, and communal autonomy. In Bordeaux, Jews originally gained privileges as New Christians; ove…
Maghreb and Mashreq
This chapter examines how the effective end of Jewish life in the Maghreb and Mashreq constituted not only the demise of a distinctive diaspora and a major demographic shift but also the collapse of a political status. For over a millennium, Jews had lived under Islam as an inferior yet protected minority. Equal citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did not prove as durable. Most Algerian Jews emigrated with the “repatriate exodus…
The Atlantic World
This chapter assesses how the Atlantic world of Dutch and British colonies followed the west European pattern of emancipation. Jews were spread across numerous colonies. The thirteen British colonies were not preponderant: each of the communities of “Curaçao, Surinam and Jamaica had more Jews in the mid-eighteenth century than all of the North American colonies combined.” In the British colonies of Canada, Jamaica, and the thirteen colonies, Jews…
Jewish Emancipation
For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. This book seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and politi…
Jewish Emancipation
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehe…
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation." Intellectual History Review, 29(3), pp. 539–540
Salo Baron on Emancipation
Throughout his career Salo Baron wrote about emancipation. In his scholarship on the modern period, it was perhaps the subject that concerned him most and, not surprisingly, he offered the most geographically comprehensive and conceptually inclusive understanding of emancipation of all his contemporaries. Baron freed himself from the parti pris positions of both emancipationist and nationalist historians, as well as other ideologically constraine…
Ueber die Eide’
Marcus Twellmann’s book offers a cultural-studies approach to oaths in eighteenth-century Prussia. Citing Foucault, Derrida and Agamben, Twellmann studies the oath as it emerged from the confessional state, where it certified correct belief for churches wedded to elaborate formulations of doctrine (the Augsburg Confession, 1530; the Book of Concord, 1580), into the absolutist enlightened state, where it served as a form of ‘discipline’. Oaths eme…
Is American Jewry Exceptional?
Is American Jewry Exceptional? Comparing Jewish Emancipation in Europe and America* David Sorkin (bio) Is American Jewry singular and exceptional? Does its experience fundamentally diverge from the experience of Jews in other countries? These questions have become a staple of the scholarly discourse about American Jewry and American Jewry’s own self-understanding. They go to the heart of what it means to be an American Jew. And they are, of cours…
The Religious Enlightenment
"Geneva's "Enlightened Orthodoxy
Jacob Vernet (1698-1789) numbers among those eighteenth-century theologians whose relationships to the philosophes have saved them from being forgotten but at the cost of being misrepresented. Vernet is usually remembered for editing the first edition of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois, helping to restore Rousseau to Calvinism, and corresponding and then crossing swords with D'Alembert and Voltaire: it is especially the controversy with D'Alem…
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish studies in universities throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all international contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish studies is a…
Between Messianism and Survival
Contrary to the predictions of sociologists that modernity would spell Judaism’’s demise, Judaism in the last three centuries has shown itself to be remarkably productive. The inner dynamic of that productivity is not the bipolarity of assimilation and nationalism that historians have asserted, but rather the dialectic between apprehensions for survival on the one hand and messianic hopes and presentiments on the other. That dialectic has resulte…
Reclaiming Theology for the Enlightenment
The new millennium appears to be ushering in a new view of the Enlightenment. The synthesis of the 1930s to the 1970s had posited a unitary Enlightenment that was the matrix of a modern secular or secularizing culture. The authority of reason and science either fully displaced, or fundamentally challenged and thus forced the reconstruction of, the claims of belief and tradition. From the 1970s a social history of ideas and institutions explored t…
New Perspectives on the Haskalah
This book offers a new understanding of one of the central cultural and ideological movements among Jews in modern times. Disengaging the Haskalah from the questions of modernization or emancipation that have hitherto dominated the scholarship, the book puts the Haskalah under a microscope in order to restore detail and texture to the individuals, ideas, and activities that were its makers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular…
The Émigré Synthesis
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Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation
(2001). Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 31-46
The Mendelssohn Myth and Its Method
For the past century and a half the scholarly interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn has been locked into a mythopoeic method of Germanification. Ever since the 1843-45 edition of his works, Mendelssohn has been presented by scholars primarily, if not exclusively, as a German thinker, that is, a prominent figure of the Berlin Aujkldrung and the preeminent Jewish intellectual of his day who wrote in German. That he also wrote in Hebrew has always bee…
The Port Jew
L'A. du present article propose l'etude du type social du 'Juif de port', c'est-a-dire des marchands juifs d'origine sepharade, parfois aussi italienne, qui se sont installes dans les villes portuaires de la Mediterranee, de la cote atlantique et du Nouveau Monde. Ces Juifs de port constituaient l'elite de la communaute. L'experience a represente un aspect important de l'histoire juive au debut de l'Europe moderne en offrant un chemin different v…
Emancipation, Haskalah, and Reform
Emancipation, Haskalah, and Reform: The Contribution of Amos Funkenstein David Sorkin (bio) It was an unusual privilege to have studied with Amos Funkenstein. He lived and breathed the rarefied air of intellectual history, providing his students with an incomparable model of intellectual engagement, close textual analysis, and an unfailing ability to devise precise formulations. His range of expertise was so broad as to inspire, but—for the gradu…
The Case for Comparison
Journal Article THE CASE FOR COMPARISON: MOSES MENDELSSOHN AND THE RELIGIOUS ENLIGHTENMENT Get access David sorkin David sorkin UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 14, Issue 2, May 1994, Pages 121–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/14.2.121 Published: 01 May 1994
Jews and Germans
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 (Studies in Jewish History)
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DAVID SORKIN DAVID SORKIN St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVII, October 1990, Page 1068, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVII.1068 Published: 01 October 1990
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840
The Port Jew
L'A. du present article propose l'etude du type social du 'Juif de port', c'est-a-dire des marchands juifs d'origine sepharade, parfois aussi italienne, qui se sont installes dans les villes portuaires de la Mediterranee, de la cote atlantique et du Nouveau Monde. Ces Juifs de port constituaient l'elite de la communaute. L'experience a represente un aspect important de l'histoire juive au debut de l'Europe moderne en offrant un chemin different v…
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation
(2001). Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 31-46
Reclaiming Theology for the Enlightenment
The new millennium appears to be ushering in a new view of the Enlightenment. The synthesis of the 1930s to the 1970s had posited a unitary Enlightenment that was the matrix of a modern secular or secularizing culture. The authority of reason and science either fully displaced, or fundamentally challenged and thus forced the reconstruction of, the claims of belief and tradition. From the 1970s a social history of ideas and institutions explored t…
The Mendelssohn Myth and Its Method
For the past century and a half the scholarly interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn has been locked into a mythopoeic method of Germanification. Ever since the 1843-45 edition of his works, Mendelssohn has been presented by scholars primarily, if not exclusively, as a German thinker, that is, a prominent figure of the Berlin Aujkldrung and the preeminent Jewish intellectual of his day who wrote in German. That he also wrote in Hebrew has always bee…
The American Jewish ExperienceSarnaJonathan D. The American Jewish Experience Holmes & MeierNew York / London, 1986, xix, 303
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The American Jewish ExperienceSarnaJonathan D. The American Jewish Experience Holmes & MeierNew York / London, 1986, xix, 303
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 (Studies in Jewish History)
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DAVID SORKIN DAVID SORKIN St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVII, October 1990, Page 1068, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVII.1068 Published: 01 October 1990
Jews and Germans
The Case for Comparison
Journal Article THE CASE FOR COMPARISON: MOSES MENDELSSOHN AND THE RELIGIOUS ENLIGHTENMENT Get access David sorkin David sorkin UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 14, Issue 2, May 1994, Pages 121–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/14.2.121 Published: 01 May 1994
The Mendelssohn Myth and Its Method
For the past century and a half the scholarly interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn has been locked into a mythopoeic method of Germanification. Ever since the 1843-45 edition of his works, Mendelssohn has been presented by scholars primarily, if not exclusively, as a German thinker, that is, a prominent figure of the Berlin Aujkldrung and the preeminent Jewish intellectual of his day who wrote in German. That he also wrote in Hebrew has always bee…
The Port Jew
L'A. du present article propose l'etude du type social du 'Juif de port', c'est-a-dire des marchands juifs d'origine sepharade, parfois aussi italienne, qui se sont installes dans les villes portuaires de la Mediterranee, de la cote atlantique et du Nouveau Monde. Ces Juifs de port constituaient l'elite de la communaute. L'experience a represente un aspect important de l'histoire juive au debut de l'Europe moderne en offrant un chemin different v…
Emancipation, Haskalah, and Reform
Emancipation, Haskalah, and Reform: The Contribution of Amos Funkenstein David Sorkin (bio) It was an unusual privilege to have studied with Amos Funkenstein. He lived and breathed the rarefied air of intellectual history, providing his students with an incomparable model of intellectual engagement, close textual analysis, and an unfailing ability to devise precise formulations. His range of expertise was so broad as to inspire, but—for the gradu…
New Perspectives on the Haskalah
This book offers a new understanding of one of the central cultural and ideological movements among Jews in modern times. Disengaging the Haskalah from the questions of modernization or emancipation that have hitherto dominated the scholarship, the book puts the Haskalah under a microscope in order to restore detail and texture to the individuals, ideas, and activities that were its makers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular…
The Émigré Synthesis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation
(2001). Port Jews and the Three Regions of Emancipation. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 31-46
Reclaiming Theology for the Enlightenment
The new millennium appears to be ushering in a new view of the Enlightenment. The synthesis of the 1930s to the 1970s had posited a unitary Enlightenment that was the matrix of a modern secular or secularizing culture. The authority of reason and science either fully displaced, or fundamentally challenged and thus forced the reconstruction of, the claims of belief and tradition. From the 1970s a social history of ideas and institutions explored t…
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish studies in universities throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all international contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish studies is a…
Between Messianism and Survival
Contrary to the predictions of sociologists that modernity would spell Judaism’’s demise, Judaism in the last three centuries has shown itself to be remarkably productive. The inner dynamic of that productivity is not the bipolarity of assimilation and nationalism that historians have asserted, but rather the dialectic between apprehensions for survival on the one hand and messianic hopes and presentiments on the other. That dialectic has resulte…
"Geneva's "Enlightened Orthodoxy
Jacob Vernet (1698-1789) numbers among those eighteenth-century theologians whose relationships to the philosophes have saved them from being forgotten but at the cost of being misrepresented. Vernet is usually remembered for editing the first edition of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois, helping to restore Rousseau to Calvinism, and corresponding and then crossing swords with D'Alembert and Voltaire: it is especially the controversy with D'Alem…
The Religious Enlightenment
Is American Jewry Exceptional?
Is American Jewry Exceptional? Comparing Jewish Emancipation in Europe and America* David Sorkin (bio) Is American Jewry singular and exceptional? Does its experience fundamentally diverge from the experience of Jews in other countries? These questions have become a staple of the scholarly discourse about American Jewry and American Jewry’s own self-understanding. They go to the heart of what it means to be an American Jew. And they are, of cours…
Ueber die Eide’
Marcus Twellmann’s book offers a cultural-studies approach to oaths in eighteenth-century Prussia. Citing Foucault, Derrida and Agamben, Twellmann studies the oath as it emerged from the confessional state, where it certified correct belief for churches wedded to elaborate formulations of doctrine (the Augsburg Confession, 1530; the Book of Concord, 1580), into the absolutist enlightened state, where it served as a form of ‘discipline’. Oaths eme…
Salo Baron on Emancipation
Throughout his career Salo Baron wrote about emancipation. In his scholarship on the modern period, it was perhaps the subject that concerned him most and, not surprisingly, he offered the most geographically comprehensive and conceptually inclusive understanding of emancipation of all his contemporaries. Baron freed himself from the parti pris positions of both emancipationist and nationalist historians, as well as other ideologically constraine…
Merchant Colonies
This chapter discusses the merchant colonies who invited Jewish merchants into their cities on exceptionally propitious terms, constituting the west European region of emancipation. Raison d'état and shifting trade patterns induced governments in such cities as Ancona, Livorno, and Venice to grant Jews extensive privileges of residence and trade, worship, and communal autonomy. In Bordeaux, Jews originally gained privileges as New Christians; ove…
Maghreb and Mashreq
This chapter examines how the effective end of Jewish life in the Maghreb and Mashreq constituted not only the demise of a distinctive diaspora and a major demographic shift but also the collapse of a political status. For over a millennium, Jews had lived under Islam as an inferior yet protected minority. Equal citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did not prove as durable. Most Algerian Jews emigrated with the “repatriate exodus…
The Atlantic World
This chapter assesses how the Atlantic world of Dutch and British colonies followed the west European pattern of emancipation. Jews were spread across numerous colonies. The thirteen British colonies were not preponderant: each of the communities of “Curaçao, Surinam and Jamaica had more Jews in the mid-eighteenth century than all of the North American colonies combined.” In the British colonies of Canada, Jamaica, and the thirteen colonies, Jews…
Jewish Emancipation
For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. This book seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and politi…
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