The Jewish Eighteenth Century
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04946-9 (ISBN)
Shmuel Feiner is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University and Chairman of the Historical Society of Israel. He is author of Haskalah and History; The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness; The Jewish Enlightenment; Moses Mendelssohn, Sage of Modernity; and The Origins of Jewish Secularization. Jeffrey M. Green is a professional writer and translator who lives and works in Jerusalem. He is author of Thinking through Translation and Largest Island in the Sea.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age
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
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 Challenge of Sabbateanism: The Storm over the "Hypocritical Serpent"
11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge
III. 1725-1750
12. To Silence the "Fellow from Padua": Moses Haim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening
13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Baal 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
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences |
Übersetzer | Jeffrey M. Green |
Zusatzinfo | none |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 807 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04946-6 / 0253049466 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04946-9 / 9780253049469 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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