The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe /
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. In this pioneering work Shmuel Feiner reconstructs this evolution by listening to the voices of those who participated in this process by decipheri...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pleasures and liberation from religious supervision
- Temptations of fashion and passion
- The mystical sect: subversive Sabbateans
- The rationalist sect: neo-Karaites and deists
- Providence is tested: secularization on the rise in the 1760s
- The supremacy of nature: deists on the margins
- The emergence of the new world
- Scandals and rebellions
- Replacing Mosaic laws with laws of freedom
- On the decline of Judaism: the last decade
- Soon our faith will be lost: deists and believers.