The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Feiner, Shmuel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Jewish culture and contexts.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Jews > Europe > Identity > 18th century.
Judaism > Europe > History > 18th century.
Jews > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Judaism and secularism > Europe > History > 18th century.
Haskalah.
Haskala.
Juifs > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Judaïsme > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Juifs > Europe > Identité > 18e siècle.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Haskalah
Jews > Identity
Jews > Intellectual life
Judaism
Judaism and secularism
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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