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Informationen zum Autor Shmuel Feiner is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University and Chairman of the Jerusalem Leo Baeck Institute. Among his many books is The Jewish Enlightenment, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award in History and also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext 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. In this pioneering work Shmuel Feiner reconstructs this evolution by listening to the voices of those who participated in this process by deciphering its cultural codes and meanings. Zusammenfassung 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. In this pioneering work Shmuel Feiner reconstructs this evolution by listening to the voices of those who participated in this process by deciphering its cultural codes and meanings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Sins and Doubts —Suspicions Arise —Religion under Attack —Early Jewish Skepticism —Acculturation and Rebellion —Secularization Terminology PART I. LIBERTY AND HERESY, 1700-1760 1 Pleasures and Liberation from Religious Supervision —Insulting the Angels of God —Physical Gratifications 2 Temptations of Fashion and Passion —Life à la Mode: Temptations of the City —Temptations of Eros —Hedonism and Abandoning God 3 The Mystical Sect: Subversive Sabbateans —A New Torah to Permit the Forbidden: From Hayon to Eybeschütz —"I Will Trample on All the Laws": Antinomianism and Libertinism 4 The Rationalist Sect: Neo-Karaites and Deists —Freethinkers and the Threat of Reason —The Fool Says in His Heart That There Is No God: Skepticism and Jewish Identity PART II. A NEW WORLD, 1760-80 5 Providence Is Tested: Secularization on the Rise in the 1760s —Warning Bells Toll in Europe —To Remove the Shackles of the Commandments: Indifference and Laxity —Counterreaction: The Early Maskilim 6 The Supremacy of Nature: Deists on the Margins —A Generation without Religion: The 1770s —From the Second Spinoza to the Biological Epicurean —Religious Skeptics: The "Primitive Ebrew" and the Blasphemer 7 The Emergence of the New World For We Are All Made of Flesh: Fashionable Jews in Amsterdam and Hamburg —The Autonomous Individual: Fanny's and Henriette's Hairstyles PART III. THE OVERTURNED WORLD, 1780-90 8 Scandals and Rebellions —Religious Tolerance and Skepticism in Europe —The Sect of the Wicked Reveals Its Face —Trash Heap of the Ceremonial Laws: The Heterodox in Breslau and Berlin 9 Replacing Mosaic Laws with Laws of Freedom —The Sect of Germans Grows Stronger in Prussia —A Peek into Jewish Life in London —How to Reply to an Epicurean: Fears of Conservatives from Virginia to Lithuania PART IV. ANXIETIES AND CONFRONTATIONS, 1790-1800 10 On the Decline of Judaism: The Last Decade —Between Linitz and London: Irreligion and the Mysteries of Religion —Between Observance and Laxity: Rifts and Tensions —Epicureans on the Offensive: Provocations and Conflicts 11 Soon Our Faith Will Be Lost: Deists and Believers —Falsifications of the Rabbis: Deistic Texts —Transgressions Have Become Permissible: The Counter-War of the Congregation of Believers Summary: Free Jews and the Origins of Secularization Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments ...
