Jewish Lifeworlds and Jewish Thought

Festschrift presented to Karl E. Grözinger on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Bearbeitet von Nathanael Riemer

1. Auflage 2012. Buch. 406 S. Hardcover ISBN 978 3 447 06634 1 Format (B x L): 17 x 24 cm Gewicht: 950 g

Weitere Fachgebiete > Religion > Jüdische Studien Zu Inhaltsverzeichnis

schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei

Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, eBooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte. Jewish Lifeworlds and Jewish Th ought Festschrift presented to Karl E. Grözinger on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Edited by Nathanael Riemer

2012 Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden

ISBN 978-3-447-06634-1 Table of Contents

Foreword ...... 9

On the Canon

HERMANN LICHTENBERGER Der biblische Kanon und die außerkanonischen Schriften...... 15

HANNA LISS Gelehrtenwissen, Drôlerie oder Esoterik? Erste Überlegungen zur Masora der Hebräischen Bibel in ihren unterschiedlichen materialen Gestaltungen im Hochmittelalter...... 27

On the Study

RONIT MEROZ The Story in the Zohar about the Grieving Dead...... 43

YOAV ELSTEIN The Conversion of R. Judah the Pious. A Study of the Story in Ma’aseh Buch, no 166 and its Parallels...... 55

SUSANNE TALABARDON Tora mi-Zeckendorf. Jüdische Gelehrsamkeit aus Franken – oder „Jeder findet, was er sucht!”...... 67

NATHANAEL RIEMER Das Geheimnis von Adam, David, Messias. Die Reinkarnation der messianischen Seele in einer sabbatianischen Quelle...... 83

On Thought

GIUSEPPE VELTRI Die arabische Philosophie und der Islam im modernen jüdischen Denken. Vorüberlegungen zu einer Begriffsgeschichte...... 99

DIRK WESTERKAMP Naming and Tetragrammatology. Medieval Apophatic Philosophy and its Double Helix...... 111 6 Inhalt

THOMAS MEYER Julius Guttmann. Ein Gedenkblatt aus gegebenem Anlass...... 125

DANIEL JÜTTE Geschichte als symbolische Form. Einige Überlegungen zu Ernst Cassirers Philosophie der Geschichte...... 133

FREDEREK MUSALL Jüdisches Denken denken...... 141

On Charity

ROBERT JÜTTE Ein Leben als Konvertit. Johannes Pfefferkorn als Spitalmeister in Köln...... 153

J. FRIEDRICH BATTENBERG Armut und Wohltätigkeit in einer kleinen jüdischen Gemeinde. Seckel Löb Wormser in Reichelsheim im Odenwald...... 161

On Love and Family

ADMIEL KOSMAN Rahab. Prostituierte und Prophetin...... 177

RELLA KUSHELEVSKY Forbidden Love in the Story “Which Was the Thief?” A Look into Bialik’s Workshop in And It Came to Pass...... 185

ELVIRA GRÖZINGER Die Mischpoche. Jüdische Familien-Bande in der Literatur. Ein kleines Brevier...... 199

SIMON BRONNER Jewish Naming Ceremonies for Girls. A Study in the Discourse of Tradition...... 211

On the Fine Arts

AVIDOV LIPSKER Berlin Heterotopia of Hesitation and Decisiveness. The Case of Benjamin Harz Verlag, Berlin-Vienna. 100 Years to its Foundation...... 223

JASCHA NEMTSOV Vermittler zwischen den Kulturen. Der Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist Marc Lavry ...... 239 Inhalt 7

REBEKKA DENZ Musica Mobilis. Klez(s)mer und über das Gedächtnis einer Stadt...... 255

On Discussions about Homeland: Diaspora and

MICHA BRUMLIK Benjamin Netanjahu, Johann Gottlieb Fichte und die Idee des Zionismus ...... 267

MICHAŁ GALAS Three Views of Jewish Acculturation to Polish Culture in the 19th and Early 20th Century Kraków ...... 279

MANJA HERRMANN Das „todeswürdige Verbrechen einer Majestätsbeleidigung”. Parteidisziplin versus Meinungsfreiheit in der Altneuland-Kontroverse...... 287

HANS-MICHAEL HAUßIG Erez Israel als Aufgabe. Zum Verhältnis von Volk und Heiligem Land bei Avraham Izchak ha-Kohen Kook . 297

ANAT FEINBERG “The sky of Eretz Israel, my sky”. Berlin and the Early Yishuv as Reflected in the Letters of Feivel Shraga Grüngard ... 309

On Remembrance

ADAM LIPSZYC Remembrance as Lamentation. Scholem, Benjamin, Sebald...... 323

VIVIAN LISKA The Blind and the Lame. Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s Zoon Politikon...... 333

JULIUS H. SCHOEPS Die Zusammenarbeit der „Judenräte“ mit den NS-Behörden im historisch-kritischen Urteil der Nachwelt...... 343

On Dialogue with “Others”

EDWARD DĄBROWA The Enemies of the Hasmoneans...... 351

EWA GELLER Aschkenas und Polak. Ein Jahrhunderte währender Antagonismus, exemplarisch dargestellt an einem jiddischen Streitlied aus dem 17. Jahrhundert ...... 357 8 Inhalt

MANFRED VOIGTS Krieg und Frieden. Franz Kobler und der Pazifismus ...... 369

MORDECHAI LEWY Why most Orthodox do not dialogue with Christians and why should they join the dialogue? ...... 377

STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI Oscillation. Interreligious dialogue between objective and subjective approaches...... 381

List of Publications by Professor Dr. Karl E. Grözinger ...... 389

List of Contributors ...... 405

Foreword

The Hebrew speaks in Num. 13:23-24 of how the scouts sent out by Moses came upon a wonderful place on earth, where they found grapes growing so large that it took two Eshkol Anavim, bunch of grapes). Upon their return to Moses) אשכל ענבים men to carry a and the children of Israel, they brought with them a bunch of grapes as a sign of the valley’s abundance. a) איש שהכל בו ?(Eshkol, bunch) אשכל The Midrash Shir ha-Shirim asks: “What is a man in whom all is contained), Bible, Mishnah, , Toseftah, and Haggadot.”1 Ish Eshkolot), the universal scholar, I see a connection between the) איש אשכולות In and the former; between deep and thorough knowledge of Jewish ( ראשית חכמה!latter (2 traditional literature and (modern) scholarship on the one hand, and fruitfulness, written and spoken, on the other. Both of these apply to the scholar of Jewish studies and religious studies, Professor Karl E. Grözinger. He, to whom this Festschrift is presented, is not only proficient in his knowledge of the various Jewish traditions and their texts, for he has also provided the world of academia with impressive fruits of his labors, of which the most recent years have been especially productive. After retiring from teaching at the university, he has dedicated himself to writing; the results thereof can be studied in his soon four-volume magnum opus, Jüdisches Denken. Theologie – Philosophie – Mystik (Jewish Thought. Theology – Phi- losophy – Mysticism). Today, only few scholars dare to take on such comprehensive chal- lenges. The honoree is one of these few, for he has presented the public a study of Jewish thought that, with its thousands of pages, reaches far beyond boundaries in epoch and disci- pline. Therein, previously neglected sources are discussed, interpreted, and positioned anew. Karl E. Grözinger, born on 04 February 1942 in Stuttgart, served the University of Potsdam as professor for Religious studies and Jewish studies between 1994 and 2007. Of great importance for the young student of Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen (1963-1965) and the Free University of Berlin (1965-1966) was his academic year at the Hebrew University of (1966-1967), where he pursued Bible studies, Biblical archeology, and Jewish studies. During his stay in Jerusalem, he realized that his aim henceforth was to study the diverse manifestations of Judaism. Afterwards, his path led him to the University of Heidelberg (1967-1971). After completion of his studies, he worked at the Qumran Research Center in Heidel- berg as a research associate. There, he also took on a second program of studies in the fields of Judaistik, Semitic studies, and Aramaic studies. He completed this program at the Uni- versity of Frankfurt am Main after he began working as an assistant to Professor Dr. Arnold Goldberg in 1972. Beginning in 1974, the young scholar served the Seminar for Judaistik

1 Midrash Shir ha-Shirim 1:14. Cf. bT Suta 47b and RaSHI thereto. 2 Prov. 4:7. 10 Foreword as lector for Hebrew and Aramaic. He received his doctoral degree in 1975 in Judaistik, Semitic and Arabic studies, and Old Testament with his dissertation Ich bin der Herr, dein Gott, Eine rabbinische Homilie zum Ersten Gebot (PeSR 20). Five years later, Karl E. Grözinger submitted his Habilitation for Judaistik, entitled Musik und Gesang in der The- ologie der frühen jüdischen Literatur, Talmud, Midrasch, Mystik. He was named Privat- dozent at the University of Frankfurt am Main in the same year. In 1989, Karl E. Grözinger accepted an appointment to the chair for Jewish studies at the University of Lund, the first chair of its kind in Sweden. In 1994, he accepted an appointment as professor for religious studies (C4) at the Uni- versity of Potsdam. When, later in the same year, he received an appointment for a profes- sorship for Jewish studies (C4) at the University of Halle, he already had chosen Potsdam, where he taught and researched until his retirement in 2007. The tragic death of Professor Francesca Yardenit Albertini in 2011 brought him temporarily back to his former place of activity. Karl E. Grözinger is deeply committed to working together with universities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. He served, for instance, several times as guest professor in the USA and Poland. Israel is the place to which he maintains especially close contact. Already in 1981, one year after his Habilitation, a research stay at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem brought him back to the location that was so decisive for his academic path. As a member of the academic board of the research group “Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story,” he has close ties with the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He also maintains intense contact with the University of , where he received and accepted an appointment an affiliated professor. The second volume of his study of Jewish thought can be considered as fruits of his stay in 2004-2005 as a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew Uni- versity of Jerusalem, where he made great strides in its preparation. Karl E. Grözinger was a founding member of the Verband der Judaisten e.V. Together with colleagues, he also founded in 1996 the Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., which he served as chairperson until 2001. It is, without a doubt, of particular merit that Karl E. Grözinger, as co-founder of the University of Potsdam’s Institute for Jewish Studies, had the wisdom to orient the insti- tute’s teaching and research activities on a broadly-defined concept of Wissenschaft des Judentums that includes, analogous to the concept of Jewish studies in the USA, a cultural studies perspective. Although this model of Jewish studies was found later to be exemplary by the German Council of Science and Humanities (Deutscher Wissenschaftsrat) and has been adopted since by several of such university institutions, it was met with significant controversy upon its proposal in the mid-1990s. This model of Jewish studies represents today – at least in practice – normality. Moreover, Karl E. Grözinger has emphasized repeatedly that a deep understanding and high-quality research of the various Jewish cultures are hardly possible without extensive knowledge of the Jewish languages. His acute awareness of the importance of language is not a given. He has dedicated himself to fostering language skills not only in Hebrew and Aramaic, but also in and Ladino, the mother tongues and majority languages of Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewry. He has also stressed the importance of oftentimes over- looked European languages, among them Polish and Russian, with regard to the studying of sources. Foreword 11

Thanks in part to Karl E. Grözinger’s efforts, collaboration between the Abraham Gei- ger College and the University of Potsdam began. Next to the large number of students of Jewish studies, who pursue secular interests in their study of Judaism, rabbinical students thus also receive their academic training in Potsdam. Furthermore, he was instrumental in the founding of the program of study Lebensgestaltung-Ethik-Religionskunde (L-E-R, Con- ducts of Life – Ethics – Religion), wherein the Jewish religion and ethics are important components. This book would not have come to fruition without the close cooperation between its editor and all of its authors, whom I would like to warmly thank for their efforts. So that as many colleagues as possible would have the opportunity to contribute to this Festschrift to Karl E. Grözinger, it was requested that shorter papers be submitted that do not present the .Bikkurim, first fruits) of current research) בכורים results of completed work, but rather the Together with Karl E. Grözinger, we can thus take a glance onto the desks of colleagues, on which both the current state of research can be found and future state-of-the-art knowledge is being prepared. With much gratitude, I would like to thank the Jehoshua and Hanna Bubis Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, especially Ida Bubis, and the Yizhak Akavyahu Foundation, Israel, for their generous grants covering the printing costs associated with this book. Furthermore, I thank Professor Dr. Yoav Elstein, Professor Dr. Rella Kushelevsky, Pro- fessor Dr. Avidov Lipsker, Professor Dr. Susanne Talabardon, Rebekka Denz, M.A., Grażyna Jurewicz, M.A., and William Hiscott, M.A. for their comments and suggestions. Special thanks are due to Dr. Sigrid Senkbeil for the careful design and layout of this book in honor of Karl E. Grözinger, with whom she worked for the whole duration of his service in Potsdam.

Nathanael Riemer, Berlin/Potsdam