The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750 (Olamot Sequence in Humanities and Social Sciences)

The eighteenth century was the Jews’ first fashionable century. The deep modifications that came about throughout its course formed the next generations, and its most outstanding voices nonetheless reverberate in the present day. On this first quantity of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twisting and engaging world of the primary half of the 18th century from the perspective of the Jews of Europe. Paying cautious consideration to life tales, to shiny and darkish experiences, to voices of protest, to aspirations of reform, and to strivings for private and normal happiness, Feiner identifies the tectonic modifications that have been going down in Europe and their unprecedented results on and amongst Jews. From the spiritual and cultural revolution of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the query of whether or not Jews might be residents of any nation, Feiner presents a broad view of how this century of upheaval altered the map of Europe and the Jews who known as it house.