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Jewish Enlightenment
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- Summary
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This text reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the 18th-century.
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 1283890453, 9781283890458, 9780812221725, 0812221729, 9780812200942, 0812200942, 0812237552, 9780812237559, 9780812221725
- OCLC
- ocn843080144
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-428) and index.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment -- PART I.A Passion for Knowledge -- Chapter 1. Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront -- Chapter Two. The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge -- Chapter Three. The Secular Author in the Public Arena -- PART II. Jewish Kulturkampf -- Chapter Four. The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties -- Chapter Five. Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance -- Chapter Six. The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive -- Chapter Seven. On Religious Power and Judaism -- PART III. The Maskilic Republic -- Chapter Eight. The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language -- Chapter Nine. The Maskilim: A Group Portrait -- Chapter Ten. Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement -- Chapter Eleven. The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice -- Chapter Twelve. Growth and Radicalization -- PART IV. On Two Fronts -- Chapter Thirteen. Crisis at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter Fourteen. Tensions and Polemics in the Shadow of Crisis -- Chapter Fifteen. On Frivolity and Hypocrisy -- Afterword: Haskalah and Secularization -- Notes -- Index