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UNINA9910821811903321 |
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Autore |
Litvak Olga |
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Titolo |
Haskalah : the romantic movement in Judaism / / Olga Litvak |
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New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Collana |
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Key Words in Jewish Studies ; ; 3 |
Key words in Jewish studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Haskalah |
Judaism - History - 18th century |
Judaism - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Part I. Terms of Debate -- 1. Wrong Time, Wrong Place -- 2. Beyond the Enlightenment -- Part II. State of the Question -- 3. Haskalah and History -- 4. Haskalah and Modern Jewish Thought -- Part III. In A New Key -- 5. Exile -- 6. New Creation -- 7. Faith -- 8. Paradise -- 9. Fall -- 10. The End of Enlightenment -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Commonly translated as the "Jewish Enlightenment," the Haskalah propelled Jews into modern life. Olga Litvak argues that the idea of a Jewish modernity, championed by adherents of this movement, did not originate in Western Europe's age of reason. Litvak contends that the Haskalah spearheaded a Jewish religious revival, better understood against the background of Eastern European Romanticism. Based on imaginative and historically grounded readings of primary sources, Litvak presents a compelling case for rethinking the relationship between the Haskalah and the experience of political and social emancipation. Most importantly, she challenges the prevailing view that the Haskalah provided the philosophical mainspring for Jewish liberalism. In Litvak's ambitious interpretation, nineteenth-century Eastern European intellectuals emerge as the authors of a Jewish Romantic revolution. Fueled by contradictory longings both for |
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