- starting on 01.06.2024 - planned time: 2024–2030
DFG Emmy Noether Programm (junior research group)
Emancipatio Rabbinica. The Role of Rabbinic Literature in Debates Surrounding the Status of the Jews in the Modern Period (1600–1900) in the Italian, German, and Eastern European Contexts seeks to map and explore a large corpus of texts that emerged from the Italian, German, and Eastern European cultural domains, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. It will search for answers to thorny questions about the character of the religious discourse of the time; the framework of Jewish-Christian relations; perceptions of Jews and Judaism; and strategies for attacking the Talmud as a proxy for Judaism, as well as for defending it. In the process, the research project will unearth a theological and political narrative that is deeply embedded in the emancipatory history of European Jewry and in contemporary understandings of Europe itself.
With its corpus-based approach, Emancipatio Rabbinica seeks to fulfill three objectives: to re-conceptualize the struggles for and against the Jews’ civil and political rights in modern Europe, through the lens of Jewish and Christian reappraisals of rabbinic Judaism; to provide further insight into the development of modern antisemitism, and how the rise of the public sphere helped promote it; and to highlight broader issues surrounding the experience and integration of religious and ethnic minorities in Europe, through an investigation into the complex theological foundation upon which interreligious discourse took place in the past.
founded by Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
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