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Author:

Feiner, Shmuel.

Title:

Cultural revolution in Berlin : Jews in the age of Enlightenment / Shmuel Feiner & Natalie Naimark-Goldberg.

Publisher:

Bodleian Library :

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

ix, 94 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., col. facsims. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
Jews--Berlin--Berlin--History--18th century.
Enlightenment--Berlin.--Berlin.
Berlin (Germany)--Civilization.
Haskalah--Berlin--Berlin--18th century.

Other Authors:

Naimark-Goldberg, Natalie.
Bodleian Library.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The Haskalah Library in Oxford : focus and limits of the story -- The early maskilim and the renewal of Jewish culture -- A modern Jewish intellectual : Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin -- Religious tolerance : an Enlightenment value contested -- A curriculum for Jewish education : rabbinic ideas contested -- The Haskalah movement : its ideology and institutions -- Jewish intellectuals in the non-Jewish sphere -- Beyond Haskalah : radicalization in Jewish intellectual circles -- Books and pamphlets from the Leopold Mèuller Memorial Library and the Bodleian Library.

Summary:

Traces the process of secularization among the young Jewish elite in Germany through a collection of 18th-century manuscripts, books, and pamphlets.

Series:

Journal of Jewish studies. Supplement series ; 1.

ISBN:

1851242910
9781851242917

OCLC:

(OCoLC)706789847

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)