Sulamith. Journal for the Promotion of Culture and Humanity among the Jewish Nation

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Sulamith. Journal for the Promotion of Culture and Humanity among the Jewish Nation
Sulamith Title 1806.jpg
language German
Headquarters Dessau & Leipzig
First edition 1806
attitude 1843
founder David ben Mose Frankel , Joseph Wolf
Frequency of publication irregular
ZDB 540027-2

Sulamith. Journal for the Promotion of Culture and Humanity among the Jewish Nation was the title of the first Jewish journal in German.

The title programmatically takes up the name of the Sulamith ([ ʃʊlɑ'mɪt ], Hebrew שולמית), German "die Friedfertige" from the Song of Songs . The magazine had changing subtitles:

  • A magazine to promote culture and humanity among the Jewish nation or
  • A magazine for promoting culture and humanity among the Israelites .

It was founded by David Fränkel together with Joseph Wolf (1762–1826). Edited by Fränkel, it appeared at irregular intervals between 1806 and 1843, in a total of nine years.

It was the first German-language magazine aimed at a Jewish readership. It also addressed non-Jewish educated people and published texts by non-Jewish authors. Committed to the ideals of Moses Mendelssohn , she propagated a secular, tolerant and cosmopolitan Judaism and the religious and cultural renewal of the “Jewish nation”.

literature

  • David Jan Sorkin: The transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 . Oxford University Press, New York 1987, p. 82 ff. ( Available from Google Books )
  • Annette Gerstenberg: The Prague Jewish Enlightenment in the magazine Sulamith . In: Bridges . Germanistic Yearbook Czech Republic - Slovakia NF 7 (1999), pp. 213–242
  • Karolin Oppermann: "... I ask him heartily to please us quite often with his excellent essays." Christian authors in the magazine Sulamith . In: Medaon, 5 (2011), 8 ( online )
  • Ingrid Lohmann: Sulamith. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 5: Pr-Sy. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02505-0 , pp. 608–610.

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