Voltaires Jews And Modern Jewish Identity
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Author | : Harvey Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134002343 |
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Harvey Mitchell’s book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire’s treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows how Voltaire’s nearly total antipathy to Judaism is best understood by stressing his self-regard as the author of an enlightened and rational universal history, which found Judaism’s memory of its past incoherent, and, in addition, failed to meet the criteria of objective history—a project in which he failed. Calling on an array of Jewish and non-Jewish figures to reveal how modern interpretations of Judaism may be traced to the core ideas of the Enlightenment, this book concludes that Voltaire paradoxically helped to foster the ambiguities and uncertainties of Judaism’s future.
Author | : Joel West |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2022-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004510133 |
Download The Fractured Jew Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Musician Josh Groban claims that he is not Jewish because of his paternal lineage. Contrariwise, Comedian Tiffany Haddish claims Jewish identity specifically because of similar lineage. Using this contrast as a jumping off point, this book explores how Judaism and Jewishness represent themselves in popular culture.
Author | : Marco Piazza |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2023-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3031187121 |
Download Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book challenges Voltaire’s doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire’s attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article ‘Juifs’ in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).
Author | : Jonathan Karp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1154 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 110813906X |
Download The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500–1815 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.
Author | : Adam Sutcliffe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691188807 |
Download What Are Jews For? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Introduction. What are Jews for? history and the purpose question -- Religion, sovereignty, Messianism : Jews and political purpose -- Reason, toleration, emancipation : Jews and philosophical purpose -- Teachers and traders : Jews and social purpose -- Light unto the nations : Jews and national purpose -- Normalization and its discontents : Jews and cultural purpose -- Conclusion. So what are Jews for?
Author | : Steven Katz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 1108494404 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
One-volume comprehensive collection of new articles on the history, literature and philosophy of antisemitism, for students and non-experts.
Author | : Nicholas Cronk |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191512761 |
Download Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, Cronk examines the nature of Voltaire's literary celebrity, demonstrating the extent to which his work was reactive and practical, and therefore made sense within the broader context of the debates to which he responded. The most famous living author in Europe in the 18th century, Cronk emphasises Voltaire's skills of 'performance' as a writer and his continued relevance today. He concludes by looking not only at Voltaire's impact in literature and philosophy, but also his influence on French political values and modern French politics. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : David Heywood Jones |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-10-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030462358 |
Download Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. An intellectual biography of Moses Hirschel offers an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city at the turn of the 18th century.
Author | : James Bernauer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004260374 |
Download "The Tragic Couple" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in the dialogue between Jews and Catholics as was manifested in the role that the Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea played in the adoption by the Second Vatican Council of Nostra Aetate, the charter for that new relationship. Still the encounters between Jesuits and Jews were often characterized by animosity and this historical record made them a tragic couple, related but estranged. This volume is the first examination of the complex interactions between Jesuits and Jews from the early modern period in Europe and Asia through the twentieth century where special attention is focused on the historical context of the Holocaust.
Author | : Moshe Y. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817361294 |
Download Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"In Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation Moshe Miller argues that nineteenth-century German Jews of all persuasions actively sought acceptance within German society and aspired to achieve full emancipation from the many legal strictures on their status as citizens and residents. But, where non-Orthodox Jews sought a large measure of cultural assimilation, Orthodox Jews were content with more delimited acculturation. However, they were no less enthusiastic about achieving emancipation and acceptance in German society. There was one issue, though, which was seen by non-Jewish critics of emancipation as a barrier to granting civic rights to Jews: namely, the alleged tribalism of the Jewish ethic and the supposedly Orthodox notion of Jews as "the Chosen People." These charges could not go unanswered, and in the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), a leading thinker of the Orthodox camp, they did not. Hirsch stressed the universalism of the Jewish ethic and the humanistic concern for the welfare of all mankind, which he believed was one of the core teachings of Judaism. His colleagues in the German Orthodox rabbinate largely concurred with Hirsch's assessment. This account places Hirsch's views in their historical context and provides a detailed account of his attitude toward non-Jews and the Christianity practiced by the vast majority of nineteenth-century Europeans"--