The Jewish enlightenment

The Jewish enlightenment

by Feiner, Shmuel

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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 beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supp…

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  • Full title :The Jewish enlightenment / Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Chaya Naor.

Summary

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 beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe and America would be unthinkable without the intellectual and social revolution that was the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

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Notes

Originally published: 2004.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 volume ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780812221725, 0812221729
  • oclc:ocn751833755
  • LC Classification:DS113 .F4413 2003
  • Dewey Decimal:296.09409033

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE -- 1.Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront -- The Restoration of Jewish Honor -- "Precursors of the Haskalah" or "Early Maskilim"? -- 2.The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge -- The Erotic Seductiveness of Knowledge -- The Redeemers of the Neglected Sciences -- Confronting Skepticism: The Noble Savage -- Shaping Rational Thinking -- 3.The Secular Author in the Public Arena -- On the Verge of Separation from the Rabbinical Elite -- Patrons and the First Circles -- Three Avenues of Development -- pt. II JEWISH KULTURKAMPF -- 4.The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties -- Orthodox Counterreaction -- The Subversive Intellectual -- 5.Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance -- The Jewish Free School -- Religious Tolerance -- Dohm: On the Civil Improvement of the Jews -- Mendelssohn's Bi'ur of the Pentateuch -- The Posner Affair -- 6.The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive

Note continued: "To Publicize the Wickedness of the Evil Man, Herz Wessely" -- An Ultimatum from the Seven Berliners -- Rabbi Levin Flees Berlin -- 7.On Religious Power and Judaism -- Berlin's Ktav Yosher -- Mendelssohn's Jerusalem -- Ra…

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Subjects

Europe Haskala -- Histoire -- 18e siècle Haskalah Haskalah -- History -- 18th century History Jewish learning and scholarship Jewish learning and scholarship -- Hist… Jews -- History -- 20th century Jews -- Intellectual life Jews -- Intellectual life -- 18th centu… Juifs -- Savoir et érudition -- 18e siè… Juifs -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e sièc…

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Feiner, Shmuel

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