Wissenschaft des Judentums

"Wissenschaft des Judentums" (literally in German the expression means "science of Judaism"; more recently in the United States it started to be rendered as "Jewish studies" or "Judaic studies", a wide academic field of inquiry in American universities) refers to a nineteenth-century movement premised on the critical investigation of Jewish literature and culture, including rabbinic literature, to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions. == The Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden == The first organized attempt at developing and disseminating Wissenschaft des Judentums was the Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden (Society for Jewish Culture and Jewish Studies), founded around 1819 by Eduard Gans, (a pupil of Hegel), and his associates.

Source: Wikipedia — Wissenschaft des Judentums (CC BY-SA 4.0)