Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The German Jewish Bible in Context
1. The First Wave: Jewish Enlightenment Bibles in Yiddish and German
Introduction: Translation Revolution
First Steps to Culture: Title Pages of Blitz and Witzenhausen Bibles (1678, 1679)
The Story of the Blitz and Witzenhausen Bibles
From Yiddish to German: A New Genealogy
First Impressions: Mendelssohn’s Page Layout
Mendelssohn’s First Steps: Translating Jehuda Halevi and Biblical Poetry
Mendelssohn’s Christian Contexts
Verse Comparisons: An Idiom in Formation
Excursus on Mendelssohn’s Commentary: Explaining the Ways of Language
Apologias: The Religious Mandate of the Modern Translator
Manifestos: The Jewish Translator as Modern Author
Conclusion: Reframing the Legacy
2. The Second Wave: Emergence of a Bible Industry
Introduction: That Red, Red Stuff
Contexts of the Second Wave
Moving Beyond Mendelssohn
The New Hebraism: The Bibles of Joseph Johlson and Leopold Zunz
Reception of the Johlson and Zunz Bibles
Gotthold Salomon’s Volks- und Schulbibel
Salomon Herxheimer’s Bible: A Be’ur for Jews and Christians
Legacies of the Second Wave
3. The Third Wave: The Bible as Gesamtkunstwerk
Introduction: Redesigning the German Jewish Bible
Contexts of the Third Wave
Philippson and Hirsch: Biographies
Philippson and Hirsch: Mission Statements
Philippson: Unifying the Hebrew Bible
Philippson: Picturing the National Story
Commentary of Philippson and Hirsch
Hirsch’s Phonetic System: Explaining the Bible from Within
Hirsch versus the Orthodox Bible Society
Philippson and Hirsch: Menorah
Legacies of the Third Wave
4. The Fourth Wave: Reimagining the German Jewish Bible
Introduction: Reframing the History
A Friendship in Letters: Buber and Pappenheim (1916–1936)
Educators with Many Pedagogies: Buber, Pappenheim, Rosenzweig
Rosenzweig and Jehuda Halevi: First Steps to Translation
Buber’s Creative Retellings
Luther and Torzcyner: Stepping-Stones of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
Pappenheim’s Yiddish Tanach
Excursus: The Tsene-Rene, Then and Now
Mission Statements: Bibles for People Today
Methodological Consensus in the Fourth Wave
Methodological Dissensus in the Fourth Wave
The Limits of Reimagination
Legacies of the Fourth Wave: A Female Moses and Jewish Luther
Epilogue: Ma shemo? The Name of God in the German Jewish Bible
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index