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Zusatztext "Bregoli's work is groundbreaking not only because it refines our understanding of how the Enlightenment impacted different Jewish communities, but also because it forces us to re-evaluate the centrality of anti-religious thinking in the Enlightenment in general. Bregoli's study of Livorno provides a compelling case of a community that embraced modernity and the Enlightenment, even though it resisted the religious reforms that often came with it." Informationen zum Autor Francesca Bregoli is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, where she also holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua Chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies. Klappentext This study of Jewish responses to Enlightenment ideals and political reforms, focused on the prominent Mediterranean community of Livorno, illuminates dynamics of integration and separation that complicate narratives about the transformations of European Jews toward the end of the early modern period. Zusammenfassung This study of Jewish responses to Enlightenment ideals and political reforms, focused on the prominent Mediterranean community of Livorno, illuminates dynamics of integration and separation that complicate narratives about the transformations of European Jews toward the end of the early modern period.
