How Vaterlandsliebe Shaped Neo-Orthodox Halacha
The Case of Rabbi David Zvi Hoffmann
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11678995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmanuel J Bloch (0000-0002-5431-7551), Emmanuel Bloch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 186-207 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-1114 • E-ISSN: 1086-3273 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/mj/kjw001 |
| OpenAlex | W2342615284 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
To use Haym Soloveitchik’s by-now-famous expression, halachic texts can be made to “talk” history; 1 in fact, for over a century and a half now, historians have successfully mined Jewish legal texts in order to draw historical realia from them. While Soloveitchik’s own studies essentially dealt with early medieval Ashkenazi culture, other contributions have notoriously illuminated the social history of more modern Jewish subcultures, including the subject of our own inquiry—post-emancipatory German Jewry. 2 Yet such is the richness and complexity of the legal material at hand that, despite the early promises, much still remains to be carried out in this academic subfield. And it would seem that Halacha is even more “talkative” than initially established: it can be used not only to obtain historical information on the world “outside,” but also as primary material on the basis of which to study the inner world of the legal authority crafting the halachic texts—in other words, the mind of the posek. Our article, which will shed some light on the legal writings of Rabbi David Zvi Hoffmann, Germany’s preeminent halachic decisor at the end of the nineteenth century, aims at partially filling these two gaps
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |