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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key : Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought /

Historians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern Jewish thought. In this first comprehensive account of the emergence of Anglo-Jewish thought in the ei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruderman, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. "The Scripture Correcting Maniae":1 Benjamin Kennicott and His Hutchinsonian and Anglo-Jewish Detractors
  • Two. The New and "Metrical5 5 English Bible: Robert Lowth and His Jewish Critic, David Levi
  • Three. Deism and Its Reverberations in English Jewish Thought: Abraham Ben Naphtali Tang and Some of His Contemporaries
  • Four. Between Rational and Irrational Dissent: Political Radicalism in Anglo-Jewish Thought
  • Five. Science and Newtonianism in the Culture of Anglo-Jewry
  • Six. Translation and Transformation: The Englishing of Jewish Culture
  • Afterword
  • Appendix. Moses Mendelssohn through Anglo-Jewish Eyes
  • Index