The Enlightenment, which marked a social and philosophical turn
away from religion and toward science and reason, swept across
Europe in the eighteenth century, and these civil and rational
values were embraced byJewish intellectuals, bringing about a
cultural revolution within traditional Jewish society. The story of
this transformation is presented here through a close look at the
works held in the Leopold Muller Memorial Library of the Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, which was the private library
of Leopold Zunz, the father of the "Science of Judaism." As Shmuel
Feiner and Natalie Naimark-Goldberg reveal in this insightful and
approachable history, the Jewish Enlightenment ("Haskalah") was a
multifaceted movement, articulated in many different ways in the
varied settings where Jews lived. Rather than providing a
comprehensive story of the Haskalah, Feiner and Naimark-Goldberg
use these impressive literary treasures to trace the cultural
transformation that took place mainly in Germany, from its moderate
and scattered beginnings in the early 1700s, through the height of
the movement in the second half of the eighteenth century, until
its final stage around 1800, when the Haskalah began to give way to
new movements and ideologies. Richly illustrated with images of
eighteenth-century manuscripts, books, and pamphlets, "Cultural
Revolution in Berlin" provides an excellent guide to the
significant cultural metamorphosis brought about by the Jewish
Enlightenment.
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