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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary: An Introduction 1
4. Testimonies
5. The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and Oriental Studies in Hungary 37
6. The Rabbinical Seminary and the War Years 55
7. Was R. Saadia Gaon’s Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch Meant for Muslims Too? 70
8. Elective Affinities
9. From Talmud Torah to Oriental Studies: Itineraries of Rabbinical Students in Hungary 75
10. Scholarship and Patriotism: Research on the History of Hungarian Jewry and the Rabbinical Seminary of Hungary—the First Decades 99
11. Suspension Bridge of Confidence: Folklore Studies in Jewish-Hungarian Scholarship 108
12. Transnational Connections
13. Beyond the Classroom: The Enduring Relationship between Heinrich L. Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher 119
14. Connecting Centers of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David Kaufmann in Budapest, 1877–1899 157
15. The International Context of Samuel Krauss’s Scholarship: Network Connections between East and West 175
16. Figures 193
17. Re-Orientalism
18. From Geiger to Goldziher: Historical Method and its Impact on the Conception of Islam 203
19. Academic Religion: Goldziher as a Scholar and a Jew 223
20. From Bacher to Telegdi: The Lure of Iran in Jewish Studies 271
21. Untrodden Paths
22. Meir Friedmann–A Pioneering Scholar of Midrash 283
23. Adolf Büchler and the Historiography of Talmudic Judaism 295
24. Georges Vajda’s Contribution to the Study of the Kabbalah 306
25. Political Confrontations
26. Hungarian Expectations and Jewish Self-Definitions, 1840–1914 329
27. Defending the Dignity of Judaism: Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Christian Prejudice, Racial Antisemitism, and the Exclusion of Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1880–1914 349
28. The Decades of an Ending: The Budapest Rabbinical Seminary after the Shoah 373
29. Appendix
30. Bibliography 385
31. Index 399
32. The Authors 415