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Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity - Rethinking the Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity - Rethinking the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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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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