Abstract: At the beginning of this century Wissenschaft des Judentums, the scientific study of Jewish subjects, was still an exotic Western growth as far as Russian Jewry was concerned. Its founders and propagators and the academic institutions they established to train younger generations of scholars were all to be found outside the borders of the largest Jewish Diaspora community. In Russian Jewry's developing cultural centers, whether their language was Russian, Hebrew or Yiddish, the modern Galician scholars who wrote Hebrew and, in particular, the German scholars, who wrote in German, seemed far and foreign. Those Russian Jews who thirsted for Jewish scholarship made their way to the West or absorbed the products of Western academicians at second-hand. The Jewish monthlies in Russian fed their readers with translations from the work of
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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