TY - BOOK AU - Schwartz,Daniel R. TI - Between Jewish Posen and scholarly Berlin: the life and letters of Philipp Jaff?e SN - 311048675X AV - DS113 U1 - 909.04924 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Berlin [Germany], Boston [Massachusetts] PB - De Gruyter KW - Jaffé, Philipp, KW - Jewish historians KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - Biography KW - Poland KW - Poznań KW - Jewish scholars KW - Philologists KW - Jews KW - Intellectual life KW - History KW - Historiens juifs KW - Allemagne KW - Biographies KW - Pologne KW - Savants juifs KW - Philologues KW - Juifs KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Histoire KW - HISTORY / World KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; Preface --; Content --; List of Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; I. Philipp Jaffé, 1819-1870 --; Introduction --; I. From Posen to Berlin --; II. Staying in Berlin and in German History (1850-1854) --; III. 1854-1863 --; IV. From Independent Scholarship to Lonely Suicide --; Conclusion --; II. Letters by Philipp Jaffé, 1838-1870 --; Introduction --; Appendices --; Appendix 1. Police Notice of Jaffé's Suicide --; Appendix 2a. Jaffé's Public Statement Condemning Pertz --; Appendix 2b. Jaffé's Out-of-Town Distribution List for His Public Statement --; Appendix 3. Two References by Georg Waitz, in FDG 10 (1870), to Recently Deceased Colleagues --; Appendix 4. "The Catastrophe of 22 March 1870": Two Possibilities --; Appendix 5. On Mistakes and Criticism --; Appendix 6. Facsimile of a Letter by Jaffé --; Select Bibliography --; Index N2 - The life of Philipp Jaffé (1819-1870), from his youth in Posen; his studies with Leopold von Ranke and career - as a close friend of Theodor Mommsen - at the pinnacle of historical scholarship in Berlin, first at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and then, after his feud with Georg Heinrich Pertz, with his unprecedented 1862 appointment, while still a Jew, to a Berlin professorship; and on to his baptism in 1868 and suicide in 1870, was a life of transition between East and West and between Judaism and Christianity - and a life of devotion to scholarship, of loneliness, of success and of frustration. Forgotten today, except by medievalists who depend on his numerous editions of Latin texts, Jaffé was a central figure in the heydays of German scholarship. His career illustrates the working conditions of such scholars, their friendships and feuds, and also the limits that hemmed Jews in and the ways they could be overcome. This volume documents Jaffé's life, accomplishments, and struggles, and also offers insight into his soul via more than two hundred of his letters (in German) - about half to his parents in Posen and half to colleagues around Europe, especially Pertz and Mommsen UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1438368 ER -