From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
“From Rebel to Rabbi is a comprehensive exploration of the figure of Christ in Yiddish and Hebrew literature and in modern Jewish art. Matthew Hoffman explores the intriguing and highly controversial ways in which Jewish culture was able to address the ideological fault lines of modernity through considerations of Jesus, the Jew. In representing Jesus to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, writers and artists often sought to subvert dominant (Christian) European culture while also placing Jews...
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This book examines the ways modern Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists appropriated the figure of Jesus as part of the process of creating modern Jewish culture.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Jesus and the Jewish Question 1The Quest for the Jewish Jesus 13The Crucifix Question 61Yiddish Modernism and the Landscape of the Cross 117The Passion of Jewish History 170The Artist Crucified 206Epilogue: The Jesus Question Revisited 252Notes 257Index 285
