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Between Jewish Posen and Scholarly Berlin : The Life and Letters of Philipp Jaffe

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 3110484609
ISBN-13 9783110484601
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 7th, 2016
Print length 394 Pages
Weight 705 grams
Ksh 19,550.00
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The life of Philipp Jaffé (1819–1870), from his youth in Posen; his studies with Leopold von Ranke and career – as a close friend of Theodor Mommsen – at the pinnacle of historical scholarship in Berlin, first at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and then, after his feud with Georg Heinrich Pertz, with his unprecedented 1862 appointment, while still a Jew, to a Berlin professorship; and on to his baptism in 1868 and suicide in 1870, was a life of transition between East and West and between Judaism and Christianity – and a life of devotion to scholarship, of loneliness, of success and of frustration. Forgotten today, except by medievalists who depend on his numerous editions of Latin texts, Jaffé was a central figure in the heydays of German scholarship. His career illustrates the working conditions of such scholars, their friendships and feuds, and also the limits that hemmed Jews in and the ways they could be overcome. This volume documents Jaffé’s life, accomplishments, and struggles, and also offers insight into his soul via more than two hundred of his letters (in German) – about half to his parents in Posen and half to colleagues around Europe, especially Pertz and Mommsen.

"Dobrze przez Schwartza rozpoznany i znakomicie udokumentowany przykład Jaffégo, choć z pewnością nietypowy, rzuca oczywiście światło na szerszą problematykę losów żydowskich i losów nauki historycznej w Niemczech po połowie XIX w."
Jerzy Strzelczyk in: Roczniki Historyczner 83 (2017), 318-321

"Insgesamt liefert der Vf. eine sehr gründliche und gut lesbare Fallstudie über die Schwierigkeit, als deutscher Jude Mitte des 19. Jh. eine akademische Karriere einzuschlagen, eine Fallstudie auch über Heimtücke und Opportunismus in der Wissenschaft, und beleuhtet damit eine dunkle Seite in der Geschichte der MGH."
In: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters Band 73.2 (2017), 754-755

"Schwartz leistet mit seiner Edition der Briefe Philipp Jaffés einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Gelehrten- und Universitätsgeschichte einer im Umbruch begriffenen Zeit."
Ralf Lutzelschwab in: ZfG - Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 4 (2018), 367-369

"Schwartz hat mit seiner Studie und der Briefedition in hervorragender Weise einen wichtigen Beitrag zur deutschen Historiographiegeschichte der 1840er bis 1860er Jahre geleistet, zugleich aber am Beispiel Jaffés die persönliche Problematik des wegen seiner Konfession nicht gleichberechtigten jüdischen Wissenschaftlers in Preußen vor der Reichsgründung 1871 verdeutlicht."
In: Bibliothek und Medien 38.1-2 (2018), 54


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