The Jewish Enlightenment / / Shmuel Feiner.

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• VerfasserIn: Feiner, Shmuel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Naor, Chaya.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their b...

Table of Contents

• 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