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Winner of the 2004 Koret Jewish Book Award in History Winner of the Meyer-Struckmann-Preis for 2007 from the University of Duesseldorf. At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They began to participate in secular culture and they embraced rationalism and non-Jewish education as supplements to traditional Talmudic studies. The full participation of Jews in modern Europe and America would be unthinkable without the intellectual and social revolution that was the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Unparalleled in scale and comprehensiveness, The Jewish Enlightenment reconstructs the intellectual and social revolution of the Haskalah as it gradually gathered momentum throughout the eighteenth century. Relying on a huge range of previously unexplored sources, Shmuel Feiner fully views the Haskalah as the Jewish version of the European Enligh

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Author

Feiner, Shmuel; Naor, Chaya;

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812221725

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Humanities