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Author Feiner, Shmuel, author.

Title The Jewish eighteenth century : a European biography, 1700-1750 / Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 541 pages)
Series Olamot series in humanities and social sciences
Olamot series in humanities and social sciences.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age -- Part I. 1700 -- 1. Pictures from Married Life: Glikl the Daughter of Leib between Hamburg and Metz -- 2. "Rise Up and Succeed": Absolutism and Court Jews in Baroque Culture -- 3. Jews in the News: The Angry Masses, a Holy Society, and"Judaism Unmasked" -- 4. Between Enlightened Thought and an Imaginary Universe -- Part II. 1701-1725 -- 5. "Everyone Wants to Be Happy": Dangers and Amusements -- 6. "Our Miserable Brethren": Jews in Time of War -- 7. Melancholy, Career, and Travels: Five Life Stories -- 8. Christians versus Jews: Bitter and Violent Relations
9. From London to Jerusalem: Confrontations and Disputes -- 10. The Storm over the "Hypocritical Serpent" -- 11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge -- Part III. 1725-1750 -- 12. To Silence the "Fellow from Padua": Moses H.ayim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening -- 13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Ba'al Shem Tov and Jew Süss -- 14. Contradictory Tendencies: Hostility, Violence, and"True Happiness" -- 15. "An Indelible Stain": War and Expulsion -- 16. A Vision of the Future: Ascent of the Soul, a Path for the Just,and a Teacher of the Perplexed -- 17. Toward Mid-Century: The Awakening of Shame -- Index
Summary "The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and its most prominent voices still reverberate today. In this first volume of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twisting and fascinating world of the first half of the 18th century from the viewpoint of the Jews of Europe. Paying careful attention to life stories, to bright and dark experiences, to voices of protest, to aspirations of reform, and to strivings for personal and general happiness, Feiner identifies the tectonic changes that were taking place in Europe and their unprecedented effects on and among Jews. From the religious and cultural revolution of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the question of whether Jews could be citizens of any nation, Feiner presents a board view of how this century of upheaval altered the map of Europe and the Jews who called it home"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the original Hebrew into English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 12, 2020)
Subject Jews -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Jews -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Jews -- Europe -- Biography
Judaism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 18th century
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
Christianity
Ethnic relations
Interfaith relations
Jews
Jews -- Intellectual life
Judaism
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Green, Yaacov Jeffrey, translator.
LC no. 2020010921
ISBN 9780253049476
0253049474
9780253052582
0253052580