{"title":"Scholem on Zunz: An Egregious Misreading","authors":"I. Schorsch","doi":"10.2979/prooftexts.38.2.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By the beginning of the twentieth century the study of midrash was the largest subfield of Jewish studies. The achievement reflects the impact of Leopold Zunz who, in 1832, published a pioneering, comprehensive history of midrashic literature that inspired several generations of scholars to pursue the subject on multiple fronts. The purpose of this article is to construct the dialectic of this unfolding scholarship and its indebtedness to Zunz with a view to refuting Gershom Scholem's negative judgment of him as a scholar out to bury Judaism. The reality of the nineteenth century simply does not comport with that unwarranted, ideologically motivated condemnation which, given Scholem's stature, has enjoyed a far longer shelf life than it deserves.","PeriodicalId":43444,"journal":{"name":"PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"27 1","pages":"278 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2979/prooftexts.38.2.04","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:By the beginning of the twentieth century the study of midrash was the largest subfield of Jewish studies. The achievement reflects the impact of Leopold Zunz who, in 1832, published a pioneering, comprehensive history of midrashic literature that inspired several generations of scholars to pursue the subject on multiple fronts. The purpose of this article is to construct the dialectic of this unfolding scholarship and its indebtedness to Zunz with a view to refuting Gershom Scholem's negative judgment of him as a scholar out to bury Judaism. The reality of the nineteenth century simply does not comport with that unwarranted, ideologically motivated condemnation which, given Scholem's stature, has enjoyed a far longer shelf life than it deserves.
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For sixteen years, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History has brought to the study of Jewish literature, in its many guises and periods, new methods of study and a new wholeness of approach. A unique exchange has taken place between Israeli and American scholars, as more work from Israelis has appeared in the journal. Prooftexts" thematic issues have made important contributions to the field.
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