Nationalism, Reform Judaism and the Hebrew Prayer Book
Reform Judaism and the Hebrew Prayer Book
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7338012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Aberbach (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-159 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2005.00234.x |
| OpenAlex | W1599298293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The Hebrew prayer book (siddur), the oldest of which dates from the ninth century, frequently expresses Jewish chosenness and hopes for the gathering of the exiles and the return to the Land of Israel. In nineteenth-century German Reform prayer books, such references to Jewish nationalism were altered or eliminated. In an age of growing European nationalism, this attempt to ‘de-nationalise’ Jewish identity was virtually unique. Responding to accusations that Jewish citizenship in the modern nation-state was incompatible with Judaism, Reform rabbis, who were engaged in the struggle for Jewish emancipation, claimed that patriotic loyalty to the German fatherland must supersede Jewish national identity. This article discusses the offending nationalist content of the siddur and the historical context in which it was suppressed. It concludes that the German reformers, by drawing attention to the nationalist potential of traditional Judaism, indirectly prepared the way for the rise of Jewish nationalism in reaction to racial anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth century
Aesthetics · Emancipation · Fatherland · German · Haskalah · Hebrew · Identity (music · Jewish identity · Jewish studies · Judaism · Land of Israel · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Sociology · State (computer science · Zionism · Classics · German legal, social, and political studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |