The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• Main Author: Feiner, Shmuel
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 2010; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Subjects: 18th century; Europe; Haskalah; History; Identity; Intellectual life; Jewish Studies; Jews; Jews > Europe > Identity > 18th century; Jews > Intellectual life > 18th century; Judaism; Judaism > Europe > History > 18th century; Judaism and secularism; Judaism and secularism > Europe > History > 18th century; RELIGION; RELIGION / Judaism / History; Western; Europe; Religion; Jewish Studies

Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adherence to tradition, as national, ethnic, cultural, and other alternatives emerged and a long, circui...