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BL
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635911
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Shorshe ha-ḥilun.English
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Feiner, Shmuel.
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The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe /\ Shmuel Feiner ; translated by Chaya Naor.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Jewish culture and contexts
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xvi, 330 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780812242737
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: 0812242734
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adherence to tradition, as national, ethnic, cultural, and other alternatives emerged and a long, circuitous search for identity began, it was no longer evident that the definition of Jewishness would be based on the beliefs and practices surrounding the study of the Torah. In "The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe" Shmuel Feiner reconstructs this evolution by listening to the voices of those who participated in the process and by deciphering its cultural codes and meanings. On the one hand, a great majority of observant Jews still accepted the authority of the Talmud and the leadership of the rabbis; on the other there was a gradually more conspicuous minority of "Epicureans" and "freethinkers." As the ground shifted, each individual was marked according to his or her place on the spectrum between faith and heresy, between devoutness and permissiveness or indifference. -- Book jacket.
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Haskalah.
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Judaism and secularism-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
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Jews-- Intellectual life-- 18th century.
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Judaism-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
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Jews-- Europe-- Identity-- 18th century.
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296.094/09033
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BM194.F45413 2010
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