The Jewish Enlightenment (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

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The Jewish Enlightenment (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 456 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780812237559
  • DDC分類 940.004924

Full Description

At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe and America would be unthinkable without the intellectual and social revolution that was the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.

Unparalleled in scale and comprehensiveness, The Jewish Enlightenment reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the eighteenth century. Relying on a huge range of previously unexplored sources, Shmuel Feiner fully views the Haskalah as the Jewish version of the European Enlightenment and, as such, a movement that cannot be isolated from broader eighteenth-century European traditions. Critically, he views the Haskalah as a truly European phenomenon and not one simply centered in Germany. He also shows how the republic of letters in European Jewry provided an avenue of secularization for Jewish society and culture, sowing the seeds of Jewish liberalism and modern ideology and sparking the Orthodox counterreaction that culminated in a clash of cultures within the Jewish community. The Haskalah's confrontations with its opponents within Jewry constitute one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the dramatic and traumatic encounter between the Jews and modernity.

The Haskalah is one of the central topics in modern Jewish historiography. With its scope, erudition, and new analysis, The Jewish Enlightenment now provides the most comprehensive treatment of this major cultural movement.

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment

PART I. A PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE

1. Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront

—The Restoration of Jewish Honor

—"Precursors of the Haskalah" or "Early Maskilim"?

2. The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge

—The Erotic Seductiveness of Knowledge

—The Redeemers of the Neglected Sciences

—Confronting Skepticism: The Noble Savage

—Shaping Rational Thinking

3. The Secular Author in the Public Arena

—On the Verge of Separation from the Rabbinical Elite

—Patrons and the First Circles

—Three Avenues of Development

PART II. JEWISH KULTURKAMPF

4. The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties

—Orthodox Counterreaction

—The Subversive Intellectual

5. Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance

—The Jewish Free School

—Religious Tolerance

Dohm: On the Civil Improvement of the Jews

—Mendelssohn's Bi'ur of the Pentateuch

—The Posner Affair

6. The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive

—"To Publicize the Wickedness of the Evil Man, Herz Wessely"

—An Ultimatum from the Seven Berliners

—Rabbi Levin Flees Berlin

7. On Religious Power and Judaism

—Saul Levin's Ktav Yosher

—Mendelssohn's Jerusalem

—Rabbinical Reactions

—Wessely and the Italian Rabbis

PART III. THE MASKILIC REPUBLIC

8. The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language

—Establishing a New Public Sphere

—A Maskilic Association in Königsburg

9. The Maskilim: A Group Portrait

—In Mendelssohn's Salon

—Circles and Boundaries in Maskilic Society

—Two Groups of Maskilim

10. Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement

—The Genesis of a Maskil

—The Haskalah Project's First Initiatives

—Hame'asef, 1785-1786

11. The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice

—The Freischule Printing House

—The Haskalah Is Institutionalized

—Intensive Acculturation in Berlin

12. Growth and Radicalization

—The Haskalah Library Expands

—The Kulturkampf Escalates

—An Attack on Rabbi Raphael Kohen

—The Search for the Ideal Jewish Society

PART IV. ON TWO FRONTS

13. Crisis at the Turn of the Century

—Voices of Despair and Protest

—Decline in the 1790s

—Jewish-German Intelligentsia

—Friedländer and the Letter to Teller

14. Tensions and Polemics in the Shadow of Crisis

—Satanow and the Haskalah Library in the 1790s

—Hame'asef, 1794-1797

—The Early Burial Controversy

—The Besamim Rosh Affair

15. On Frivolity and Hypocrisy

—The Enemies of Enlightenment

—Internal Rifts

—Rabbi Josephche and Jettchen in the Brothel

Afterword: Haskalah and Secularization

The Haskalah as a Revolutionary Event

Secular Revolution

Notes

Index