The 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.
| Summary: | 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. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-428) and index Originally published as Ma'apechat ha-neorut, tenuat ha-Haskalah ha-Yehudit ba-mea ha-shmune esre |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xiv, 440 p) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-0094-2 |
