Category:Jewish

The page: Jewish Authorship, includes (in chronological order) scholarly and fictional works on Second Temple Judaism (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins), authored by Jewish authors, from the second half of the 15th century to the present, as well as biographical information about their authors.

In the Jewish tradition, we don't see a development of works of fiction and art on Second Temple comparable to what Christianity developed since the Renaissance. There are two notable exceptions--composer Salomone Rossi and playwright Leone Modena. They were the product of the closest integration achieved by some Jewish communities in Northern Italy at the beginning of the 17th century.

With the Emancipation Jewish authors had more opportunities in Europe to contribute to the cultural life of their time. Composers Isaac Nathan, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ferdinand Hiller and Samuele Levi authored music and oratorios on figures like Judith, and Paul and events, like the Destruction of Jerusalem, which were also popular in Christian tradition.

In the second half of the 19th century, Jewish writers and rabbis influenced by the Reform movement began addressing some subjects of the Second Temple period from a more distinctive Jewish point of view, for a Jewish audience.

In the United States, Isaac Mayer Wise (Maccabees, 1855), Henry Iliowizi Herman Milton Bien, then Judah Loeb Landau Julius Kossarski ("Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus", 1855

Leopold Stein.

In Hebrew (Kalman Schulman) and in Yiddish (Isaac Meir Dick, Israel Meir Wohlman, and especially Abraham Goldfaden, Nahum Meir Shaikewitz, Joseph Judah Lerner, Ya`akov Ter

Si sviluppa anche una letteratura per ragazzi, Henry Pereira Mendes, Janie Jacobson Elma Ehrlich Levinger (1918)

In the 1920s and 1930s, publication of novels meant to strengthen the endurance of the jewish people if difficult times of persecution

some Jewish authors began to investigate subjects of the Christian tradition from a Jewish perspective, as a reaction against rampant anti-Semitism. Meir Wiener in Germany on Jesus, Cecil roth on Judas Iscariot, Edmond A. Fleg (1933) and Marc Chagall in France.

Sholem Asch (1940s)

After the Holocaust, Jewish authors focus on the reconstruction and the birth of the Jewish State

Howard Fast My Gl

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