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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feiner, Shmuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
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.