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The Jewish Enlightenment »

Authors: Shmuel Feiner, Chaya Naor
ISBN-13: 9780812237559, ISBN-10: 0812237552
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Shmuel Feiner

Shmuel Feiner is Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University and author of Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness.

Book Synopsis

"Feiner's work is likely to become the standard book on the Haskalah and thus will become indispensable to scholars of Jewish history, literature, and thought."—David Sorkin, University of Wisconsin

	Preface
	Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment	1
1	Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront	21
2	The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge	36
3	The Secular Author in the Public Arena	68
4	The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties	87
5	Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance	105
6	The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive	139
7	On Religious Power and Judaism	163
8	The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language	185
9	The Maskilim: A Group Portrait	200
10	Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement	221
11	The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice	243
12	Growth and Radicalization	265
13	Crisis at the Turn of the Century	293
14	Tensions and Polemics in the Shadow of Crisis	321
15	On Frivolity and Hypocrisy	342
	Afterword: Haskalah and Secularization	365
	Notes	375
	Index	429