Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 440 p)
ISBN:
9780812200942
Series Statement:
Jewish culture and contexts
Uniform Title:
Ma'apechat ha-neorut, tenuat ha-Haskalah ha-Yehudit ba-mea ha-shmune esre
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment -- PART I: A PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE -- 1 Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront -- The Restoration of Jewish Honor -- ''Precursors of the Haskalah'' or ''Early Maskilim''? -- 2 The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge -- The Erotic Seductiveness of Knowledge -- The Redeemers of the Neglected Sciences -- Confronting Skepticism: The Noble Savage -- Shaping Rational Thinking -- 3 The Secular Author in the Public Arena -- On the Verge of Separation from the Rabbinical Elite -- Patrons and the First Circles -- Three Avenues of Development -- PART II: JEWISH KULTURKAMPF -- 4 The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties -- Orthodox Counterreaction -- The Subversive Intellectual -- 5 Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance -- The Jewish Free School -- Religious Tolerance -- Dohm: On the Civil Improvement of the Jews -- Mendelssohn's Bi'ur of the Pentateuch -- The Posner Affair -- 6 The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive -- ''To Publicize the Wickedness of the Evil Man, Herz Wessely'' -- An Ultimatum from the Seven Berliners -- Rabbi Levin Flees Berlin -- 7 On Religious Power and Judaism -- Berlin's Ktav Yosher -- Mendelssohn's Jerusalem -- Rabbinical Reactions -- Wessely and the Italian Rabbis -- PART III: THE MASKILIC REPUBLIC -- 8 The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language -- Establishing a New Public Sphere -- A Maskilic Association in Königsberg -- 9 The Maskilim: A Group Portrait -- In Mendelssohn's Salon -- Circles and Boundaries in Maskilic Society -- Two Groups of Maskilim -- 10 Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement -- The Genesis of a Maskil -- The Haskalah Project's First Initiatives -- Hame'asef, 1785-1786 -- 11 The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice -- The Freischule Printing House -- The Haskalah Is Institutionalized.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-428) and index
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Originally published as Ma'apechat ha-neorut, tenuat ha-Haskalah ha-Yehudit ba-mea ha-shmune esre
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment""; ""PART I: A PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE""; ""1 Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront""; ""The Restoration of Jewish Honor""; ""''Precursors of the Haskalah'' or ''Early Maskilim''?""; ""2 The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge""; ""The Erotic Seductiveness of Knowledge""; ""The Redeemers of the Neglected Sciences""; ""Confronting Skepticism: The Noble Savage""; ""Shaping Rational Thinking""; ""3 The Secular Author in the Public Arena""; ""On the Verge of Separation from the Rabbinical Elite""
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""Patrons and the First Circles""""Three Avenues of Development""; ""PART II: JEWISH KULTURKAMPF""; ""4 The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties""; ""Orthodox Counterreaction""; ""The Subversive Intellectual""; ""5 Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance""; ""The Jewish Free School""; ""Religious Tolerance""; ""Dohm: On the Civil Improvement of the Jews""; ""Mendelssohn's Bi'ur of the Pentateuch""; ""The Posner Affair""; ""6 The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive""; ""''To Publicize the Wickedness of the Evil Man, Herz Wessely''""; ""An Ultimatum from the Seven Berliners""
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""Rabbi Levin Flees Berlin""""7 On Religious Power and Judaism""; ""Berlin's Ktav Yosher""; ""Mendelssohn's Jerusalem""; ""Rabbinical Reactions""; ""Wessely and the Italian Rabbis""; ""PART III: THE MASKILIC REPUBLIC""; ""8 The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language""; ""Establishing a New Public Sphere""; ""A Maskilic Association in Königsberg""; ""9 The Maskilim: A Group Portrait""; ""In Mendelssohn's Salon""; ""Circles and Boundaries in Maskilic Society""; ""Two Groups of Maskilim""; ""10 Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement""; ""The Genesis of a Maskil""
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""The Haskalah Project's First Initiatives""""Hame'asef, 1785-1786""; ""11 The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice""; ""The Freischule Printing House""; ""The Haskalah Is Institutionalized""; ""Intensive Acculturation in Berlin""; ""12 Growth and Radicalization""; ""The Haskalah Library Expands""; ""The Kulturkampf Escalates""; ""An Attack on Rabbi Raphael Kohen""; ""The Search for the Ideal Jewish Society""; ""PART IV: ON TWO FRONTS""; ""13 Crisis at the Turn of the Century""; ""Voices of Despair and Protest""; ""Decline in the 1790s""; ""Jewish-German Intelligentsia""
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""Friedländer and the Letter to Teller""""14 Tensions and Polemics in the Shadow of Crisis""; ""Satanow and the Haskalah Library in the 1790s""; ""Hame'asef, 1794-1797""; ""The Early Burial Controversy""; ""The Besamim Rosh Affair""; ""15 On Frivolity and Hypocrisy""; ""The Enemies of Enlightenment""; ""Internal Rifts""; ""Rabbi Josephche and Jettchen in the Brothel""; ""Afterword: Haskalah and Secularization""; ""The Haskalah as a Revolutionary Event""; ""Secular Revolution""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812221725
Language:
English
Keywords:
Judentum
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Aufklärung
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Judentum
;
Geistesgeschichte 1680-1740
Author information:
Feiner, Shemuʾel 1955-
