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The Jewish Enlightenment (Paperback)
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The Jewish Enlightenment (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived
in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the
surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by
language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban,
upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish
in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived.
They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced
rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional
Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe
and America would be unthinkable without the intellectual and
social revolution that was the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.
Unparalleled in scale and comprehensiveness, The Jewish
Enlightenment reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution
of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the
eighteenth century. Relying on a huge range of previously
unexplored sources, Shmuel Feiner fully views the Haskalah as the
Jewish version of the European Enlightenment and, as such, a
movement that cannot be isolated from broader eighteenth-century
European traditions. Critically, he views the Haskalah as a truly
European phenomenon and not one simply centered in Germany. He also
shows how the republic of letters in European Jewry provided an
avenue of secularization for Jewish society and culture, sowing the
seeds of Jewish liberalism and modern ideology and sparking the
Orthodox counterreaction that culminated in a clash of cultures
within the Jewish community. The Haskalah's confrontations with its
opponents within Jewry constitute one of the most fascinating
chapters in the history of the dramatic and traumatic encounter
between the Jews and modernity. The Haskalah is one of the central
topics in modern Jewish historiography. With its scope, erudition,
and new analysis, The Jewish Enlightenment now provides the most
comprehensive treatment of this major cultural movement.
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