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Author:

Feiner, Shmuel.

Title:

The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe / Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Chaya Naor.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvi, 330 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Haskalah.
Judaism and secularism--Europe--History--18th century.
Jews--Intellectual life--18th century.
Judaism--Europe--History--18th century.
Jews--Europe--Identity--18th century.

Other Titles:

Shorshe ha-ḥilun. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pleasures and liberation from religious supervision -- Temptations of fashion and passion -- The mystical sect: subversive Sabbateans -- The rationalist sect: neo-Karaites and deists -- Providence is tested: secularization on the rise in the 1760s -- The supremacy of nature: deists on the margins -- The emergence of the new world -- Scandals and rebellions -- Replacing Mosaic laws with laws of freedom -- On the decline of Judaism: the last decade -- Soon our faith will be lost: deists and believers.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

ISBN:

0812242734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812242737 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)606785062

LCCN:

2010027769

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)