ISBN:
9780253049476
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (561 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8924040922
Keywords:
Jews-Europe-History-18th century
;
Jews-Europe-Intellectual life-18th century
;
Jews-Europe-Biography
;
Judaism-Europe-History-18th century
;
Judaism-Relations-Christianity-History-18th century
;
Christianity and other religions-Judaism-History-18th century
;
Europe-Ethnic relations-History-18th century
;
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Abstract:
In this first volume of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twisting and fascinating world of the 18th century from the viewpoint of the Jews of Europe. From the religious and cultural revolution of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the question of whether Jews could be citizens of any nation, Feiner presents a board view of how this century of upheaval altered the map of Europe and the Jews who called it home.
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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