ISBN:
9780253049476
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (561 pages)
Series Statement:
Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Feiner, Shemuʾel, 1955 - The Jewish eighteenth century
DDC:
305.892/4040922
Keywords:
Jews Intellectual life 18th century
;
Jews Biography
;
Judaism History 18th century
;
Judaism Relations 18th century
;
Christianity
;
History
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 18th century
;
History
;
Jews History 18th century
;
Jews-Europe-History-18th century
;
Electronic books
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Europe Ethnic relations 18th century
;
History
;
Europa
;
Juden
;
Geschichte 1700-1750
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age -- Part I. 1700 -- 1. Pictures from Married Life: Glikl the Daughter of Leib between Hamburg and Metz -- 2. "Rise Up and Succeed": Absolutism and Court Jews in Baroque Culture -- 3. Jews in the News: The Angry Masses, a Holy Society, and"Judaism Unmasked" -- 4. Between Enlightened Thought and an Imaginary Universe -- Part II. 1701-1725 -- 5. "Everyone Wants to Be Happy": Dangers and Amusements -- 6. "Our Miserable Brethren": Jews in Time of War -- 7. Melancholy, Career, and Travels: Five Life Stories -- 8. Christians versus Jews: Bitter and Violent Relations -- 9. From London to Jerusalem: Confrontations and Disputes -- 10. The Storm over the "Hypocritical Serpent" -- 11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge -- Part III. 1725-1750 -- 12. To Silence the "Fellow from Padua": Moses H.ayim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening -- 13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Ba'al Shem Tov and Jew Süss -- 14. Contradictory Tendencies: Hostility, Violence, and"True Happiness" -- 15. "An Indelible Stain": War and Expulsion -- 16. A Vision of the Future: Ascent of the Soul, a Path for the Just,and a Teacher of the Perplexed -- 17. Toward Mid-Century: The Awakening of Shame -- Index.
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