Harvey Mitchell's book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire's
treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the
origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows
how Voltaire's nearly total antipathy to Judaism is best understood
by stressing his self-regard as the author of an enlightened and
rational universal history, which found Judaism's memory of its
past incoherent, and, in addition, failed to meet the criteria of
objective history-a project in which he failed.
Calling on an array of Jewish and non-Jewish figures to reveal
how modern interpretations of Judaism may be traced to the core
ideas of the Enlightenment, this book concludes that Voltaire
paradoxically helped to foster the ambiguities and uncertainties of
Judaism's future.
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