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Jews --- Haskalah --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Juifs --- Haskala --- Intellectual life --- History --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire --- Savoir et érudition

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Revises our understanding of the relationship between the Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and hasidism, reassesses the role of key individuals in the movement, and offers a new, more nuanced, definition of the Haskalah. Should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish history, literature, and culture in eighteenth-century Germany and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century.

Jewish religion --- History of civilization --- Haskalah --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish Enlightenment --- Enlightenment --- Liberalism (Religion) --- Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement) --- Intellectual life

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"The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and its most prominent voices still reverberate today. In this first volume of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twisting and fascinating world of the first half of the 18th century from the viewpoint of the Jews of Europe. Paying careful attention to life stories, to bright and dark experiences, to voices of protest, to aspirations of reform, and to strivings for personal and general happiness, Feiner identifies the tectonic changes that were taking place in Europe and their unprecedented effects on and among Jews. From the religious and cultural revolution of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the question of whether Jews could be citizens of any nation, Feiner presents a board view of how this century of upheaval altered the map of Europe and the Jews who called it home"--

Judaism. --- Jews --- Jews. --- Interfaith relations. --- Ethnic relations. --- Christianity. --- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- Intellectual life --- Europe. --- Europe --- Ethnic relations --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Church history --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Minorities --- Race relations --- Jewish question --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Religion --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia