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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shmuel Feiner , Jeffrey M. GreenPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.989kg ISBN: 9780253049452ISBN 10: 0253049458 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 01 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age 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 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 Challenge of Sabbateanism: The Storm over the ""Hypocritical Serpent"" 11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge III. 1725-1750 12. To Silence the ""Fellow from Padua"": Moses Haim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening 13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Baal 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"ReviewsShmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the modernity of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities.--David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University Shmuel Feiner has synthesized the work of the best modern scholars of a half-century of European Jewish history and combined it with his own, original research, to tell the story of a period little known to non-specialists. The result is a narrative that is as authoritative as it is entrancing.--Allan Arkush, Jewish Review of Books Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement.--Yair Mintzker, Princeton University """Shmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the ""modernity"" of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities.""—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University ""Shmuel Feiner has synthesized the work of the best modern scholars of a half-century of European Jewish history and combined it with his own, original research, to tell the story of a period little known to non-specialists. The result is a narrative that is as authoritative as it is entrancing.""—Allan Arkush, Jewish Review of Books ""Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement.""—Yair Mintzker, Princeton University" Shmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the modernity of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities. -David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University Shmuel Feiner has synthesized the work of the best modern scholars of a half-century of European Jewish history and combined it with his own, original research, to tell the story of a period little known to non-specialists. The result is a narrative that is as authoritative as it is entrancing. -Allan Arkush, Jewish Review of Books Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement. -Yair Mintzker, Princeton University ""Shmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the ""modernity"" of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities.""—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University ""Shmuel Feiner has synthesized the work of the best modern scholars of a half-century of European Jewish history and combined it with his own, original research, to tell the story of a period little known to non-specialists. The result is a narrative that is as authoritative as it is entrancing.""—Allan Arkush, Jewish Review of Books ""Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement.""—Yair Mintzker, Princeton University Author InformationShmuel Feiner is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University and Chairman of the Historical Society of Israel. He is author of Haskalah and History; The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness; The Jewish Enlightenment; Moses Mendelssohn, Sage of Modernity; and The Origins of Jewish Secularization. Jeffrey M. Green is a professional writer and translator who lives and works in Jerusalem. He is author of Thinking through Translation and Largest Island in the Sea. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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