A Jewish-Pietist Network
Dialogues between Protestant Missionaries and Yiddish Writers in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5348786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebekka Vo (0000-0003-3157-2741, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 731-763 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jqr.2022.0034 |
| OpenAlex | W4312306669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay considers intercultural exchange within the framework of the early modern missionary encounter, concentrating on the Pietist mission in eighteenth-century Germany. The complex ramifications of Protestant Pietism for Jewish history have not received sustained scholarly attention; this essay argues that the meetings between Pietist missionaries and Jews often resulted in an intense dialogue, entailing an intriguing cultural entanglement. In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Pietist mission prompted personal conversations between Christians and a significant number of Jews. Most Jews were surprisingly willing to speak with the missionaries, despite their evident agenda. The essay focuses on three individual authors of well-known Yiddish ethical (musar) works whose extensive links to Pietism have been largely overlooked: Elhanan Henle Kirchhan, author of Simhat ha-nefesh (1707, 1726/27), Aaron of Hergershausen, author of Liblikhe tfile (1709), and Isaac Wetzlar who penned the social critique Libes briv (1748)
Archaeology · Art · German · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Pietism · Protestantism · Theology · Yiddish · History · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |