Zuzanna Krzemie¿

Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment

Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), an Eastern European Maskil
Herausgeber: Duhaut, Noëmie; Tworek, Wojciech

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Krzemien's book delves into the life of Solomon Dubno (1738?1813), a devout Polish Jew who was pivotal to Moses Mendelssohn's project of translating the Bible into German. It explores Dubno's role, his library's influence, and his poetic endeavors to showcase the beauty of Hebrew. The work offers a nuanced image of the early Haskalah movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9798887193915
• Artikelnr.: 69523182

Autorenporträt

Zuzanna Krzemień (1987-2021) received her doctorate from the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London. She held fellowships from the Posen Foundation and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and served as the curator of East European collections in the British Library in London. Noëmie Duhaut is a research associate at the Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on Jewish internationalism in the context of post-Ottoman state-building in the Balkans. Her second book project is a biography of the nineteenth-century French Jewish leader Adolphe Crémieux. Her work has appeared in French Historical Studies, European History Yearbook and Archives Juives. Wojciech Tworek is assistant professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He is the author of Eternity Now (SUNY, 2019) which examines the teachings of Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism. Currently he is completing a book on the Chabad community in interwar Poland and - together with Marcin Wodziński - an anthology of Hasidic stories. Monika Biesaga studied Information and Library Science, and Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 2021 she received her PhD from the Jagiellonian University with a historical study on Jewish libraries in interwar Poland (1918-1939). Apart from the history of Jewish libraries, her research interests include also the fate of Jewish book collections after the Second World War.