The Research About Leopold Zunz's Conception Of History

In the first half of the 19 th century,the attack on Jewish culture by mainstream scholarship and the lack of interest in Jewish culture by a new generation of young Jewish people led to a serious crisis in Jewish culture.In the face of the crisis,the Jewish academia has a tendency to try to solve the crisis of the Jewish culture through an objective and critical study of culture,the representative of which is Leopold Zunz.Under the influence of August Boeckh,Wolf,De Wette and Niebuhr,Zunz believed that Jewish culture,as a culture developed for thousands of years,is an important component of world culture and a mature and excellent culture.Jewish culture as such a mature and excellent culture,However,in the history of the development process suffered all kinds of discrimination and prejudice,as the owner of this culture-the Jews because of their culture suffered a variety of unfair treatment,Of course,does not deny that the Jewish cultural heritage as a continuation from the history of the culture,the existence of its outstanding ingredients,also contains some outdated,and modern society incompatible ingredients,but we can because of its to deny its excellence.Zunz believes the reason for the unfair treatment of the Jewish culture is that the Jewish culture is closed and conservative.It is because the Jewish culture did not communicate with the mainstream culture and the Christian slander against the Jewish culture since the Middle Ages.Therefore,as a historian,Zunz believes that if we want to let the mainstream society to change the view of the distortion of the Jewish culture,the Jewish academia must be objective,critical and scientific approach to the study of Jewish culture in order to eliminate the elements incompatible with the development of the times,Retain its essence,so that the Jewish culture in the modernization of this great trend of the times in an invincible position.Zunz pointed out that the development of politics is the basis of cultural progress,cultural progress on the political development has a certain stimulating and promoting role,therefore,the objective criticism of Jewish culture research,but also can promote the liberation of the Jews.Of course,it is not enough to study Jews' objective liberation through the study of objective criticism of Jewish culture,we should also to show the sufferings of Jews in history through objective and critical methods in order to win the mainstream Jewish society.Sympathy,so that the Jews in later life,to obtain complete liberation.On the basis of this,Zunz gradually formed the historiography thought which was led by the cultural history view,including the objective critical history view and the suffering historical view.On the basis of these historical thoughts,the Jewish academy gradually formed a group of Jewish historical research schools,including history-positivism,Jewish history and the history of the Jewish community,and created a new era of Jewish history research.At the same time,the formation of Zunz's historical thought deepened the recognition of Jewish culture and promoted the acceptance of Jewish and Jewish culture by the upper German people,which saved the Jewish cultural crisis to a certain extent.