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      • Leopold Zunz (born Aug. 10, 1794, Detmold, Lippe [now in Germany]—died March 18, 1886, Berlin, Ger.) was a German historian of Jewish literature who is often considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the 19th century.
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  2. Aug 6, 2024 · Leopold Zunz (born Aug. 10, 1794, Detmold, Lippe [now in Germany]—died March 18, 1886, Berlin, Ger.) was a German historian of Jewish literature who is often considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the 19th century.

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    Leopold Zunz (Hebrew: יום טוב צונץ —Yom Tov Tzuntz, Yiddish: ליפמן צונץ —Lipmann Zunz; 10 August 1794 – 17 March 1886) was the founder of academic Judaic Studies (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. [1]

  4. Leopold Zunz, a German Jew who lived from 1794-1886, was the founder of Wissenschaft, the “science of Judaism” that brought Jewish studies as an academic field into university settings. He was also a pioneer in studying the history of Jewish literature, religious poetry and synagogue rituals.

  5. May 11, 2018 · The German-born Jewish scholar Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) was the founder of modern historical and philological study of Judaism. Leopold Zunz was born at Lippe, Detmold, on Aug. 10, 1794. Educated in Wolfenbüttel at the Samson Free School, he went on to study classics and history at Berlin University.

  6. Founder of the modern "science of Judaism" and pioneer in the history of Jewish literature, religious poetry, and the ritual of the synagogue; born at Detmold Aug. 10, 1794; died at Berlin March 18, 1886.

  7. German historian of Judaism (1794–1886). Zunz is rightly considered to be the foremost figure, if not the founder, of the Jüdische Wissenschaft movement, in which Judaism is studied by the historical–critical method (and see HISTORY, FRANKEL, KROCHMAL, and RAPOPORT).

  8. Mar 30, 2019 · This marvellous book by the eminent scholar of German Jewish intellectual history Ismar Schorsch is not only a long-awaited biography of one of the most important figures of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (scholarship of Judaism), Leopold Zunz, whose life spanned the tumultuous years from 1794 to 1886. But Schorsch’s work is also a collective ...

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