From Rebel to Rabbi

Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19927090
AuthorsMatthew Hoffman (0000-0001-8546-3714, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-03-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFrom Rebel to Rabbi (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503625846
OpenAlexW4206924966
ISBN9781503625846
LanguageEN
Citations received10

From Rebel to Rabbi establishes how the changes that occurred in Jewish culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stimulated a widespread fascination with the figure of Jesus and with Christian motifs among numerous Jewish theologians, historians, intellectuals, writers, and artists. It illustrates how and why the process of modernization for these Jews involved a radical reevaluation of Jesus of Nazareth. This book analyzes works of Jewish history, theology, Yiddish literature, Jewish visual art, and intellectual debates, in an attempt to situate this phenomenon within the broader context of a cultural history of how Jews have related to and depicted the figure of Jesus in the modern period. It suggests that for writers and artists, such as Sholem Asch and Marc Chagall, refiguring Jesus as intrinsically Jewish and using Christian themes to express aspects of the modern Jewish experience were an integral part of creating a new and distinctive modern Jewish culture

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Jewish culture · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Modernization theory · Period (music) · Phenomenon · Theology · Yiddish · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies