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Haskalah and History : the Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness.
Shmuel Feiner's innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalah - the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future and take their place in wider society, but as Jews - without denying th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Shmuel Feiner's innovative book recreates the historical consciousness that fired the Haskalah - the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The proponents of this movement advocated that Jews should capture the spirit of the future and take their place in wider society, but as Jews - without denying their collective identity and without denying their past. Claiming historical legitimacy for their ideology and their vision of the future, they formulated an ethos of modernity that they projected on to the universal and the Jewish past alike. What was the image of the past that they shaped? What tactics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (417 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781909821323 1909821322 |