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ZUNZ, LEOPOLD (1794-1886)
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See also:ZUNZ, See also:LEOPOLD (1794-1886) , Jewish See also:scholar, was See also:born at Detmold in 1794, and died in See also:Berlin in 1886. He was the founder of what has been termed the " See also:science of Judaism," the See also:critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and See also:ritual. See also:Early in the 19th See also:century he was associated with See also:Gans See also:Moser and See also:Heine in an association which the last named called " See also:Young See also:Palestine." The ideals of this Verein were not See also:des-See also:tined to See also:bear religious See also:fruit, but the " science of Judaism " survived. Zunz took no large See also:share in Jewish reform, but never lost faith in the regenerating See also:power of " science " as applied to the traditions and See also:literary legacies of the ages. He had thoughts of becoming a preacher, but found the career uncongenial. He influenced Judaism from the study rather than from the See also:pulpit. In 1832 appeared what E. H. See also:Hirsch rightly terms " the most important Jewish See also:book published in the 19th century." This was Zunz's Gottesdienstliche Vortrage der Juden, i.e. a See also:history of the See also:Sermon. It See also:lays down principles for the investigation of the Rabbinic exegesis (See also:Midrash, q.v.) and of the See also:prayer-book of the See also:synagogue. This book raised Zunz to the supreme position among Jewish scholars. In 1840 he was appointed director of a Lehrerseminar, a See also:post which relieved him from pecuniary troubles. In 1845 ,appeared his Zur Geschichte and Literatur, in which he threw See also:light on the literary and social history of the See also:Jews. Zunz was always interested in politics, and in 1848 addressed many public meetings. In r85o he resigned his headship of the Teachers' See also:Seminary, and was awarded a See also:pension. He had visited the See also:British Museum in 1846, and this confirmed him in his See also:plan for his third book, Synagogale Poesie des Mittelalters (1855). It was from this book that See also:George See also:Eliot translated the following opening of a See also:chapter of See also:Daniel Deronda: " If there are ranks in suffering, See also:Israel takes See also:precedence of all the nations " . . . &c. After its publication Zunz again visited See also:England, and in 1859 issued his Ritus. In this he gives a masterly survey of synagogal See also:rites. His last See also:great book was his Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie (1865). A supplement appeared in 1867. Besides these See also:works, Zunz published a new See also:translation of the See also:Bible, and wrote many essays which were afterwards collected as Gesammelte Schriften. Throughout his early and married See also:life he was the See also:champion Gf Jewish rights, and he did not withdraw from public affairs until 1874, the See also:year of the See also:death of his wife Adelhei Beermann, whom he had married in 1822. See Emil G. Hirsch, in Jewish Encyclopedia, xii. 699—704. (I. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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