The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe /

The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe / / Shmuel Feiner.

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Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adherence to tradition, as national, ethnic, cultural, and other alternatives emerged and a long, circui...

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VerfasserIn:
Feiner, Shmuel,
TeilnehmendeR:
Naor, Chaya.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction Sins and Doubts
  • PART I. Liberty and Heresy, 1700-1760
  • Chapter 1 Pleasures and Liberation from Religious Supervision
  • Chapter 2 Temptations of Fashion and Passion
  • Chapter 3 The Mystical Sect: Subversive Sabbateans
  • Chapter 4 The Rationalist Sect: Neo-Karaites and Deists
  • PART II. A New World, 1760-80
  • Chapter 5 Providence Is Tested: Secularization on the Rise in the 1760s
  • Chapter 6 The Supremacy of Nature: Deists on the Margins
  • Chapter 7 The Emergence of the New World
  • PART III. The Overturned World, 1780-90
  • Chapter 8 Scandals and Rebellions
  • Chapter 9 Replacing Mosaic Laws with Laws of Freedom
  • PART IV. Anxieties and Confrontations, 1790-1800
  • Chapter 10 On the Decline of Judaism: The Last Decade
  • Chapter 11 Soon Our Faith Will Be Lost: Deists and Believers
  • Summary Free Jews and the Origins of Secularization
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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