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Book SynopsisHistorians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern Jewish thought. This title depicts the challenge of defining a religious identity in the modern age.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2001 Koret Jewish Book Award, History of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture "David B. Ruderman's cleverly conceived and well executed study won [the] Koret Jewish Book Award in History. The book richly merits this recognition. This is a good and important book."--Eugene C. Black, American Historical Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 Chapter One: "The Scripture Correcting Maniae": Benjamin Kennicott and His Hutchinsonian and Anglo-Jewish Detractors 23 Chapter Two: The New and "Metrical" English Bible: Robert Lowth and His Jewish Critic, David Levi 57 Chapter Three: Deism and Its Reverberations in English Jewish Thought: Abraham hen Naphtali Tang and Some of His Contemporaries 89 Chapter Four: Between Rational and Irrational Dissent: Political Radicalism in Anglo-Jewish Thought 135 Chapter Five: Science and Newtonianism in the Culture of Anglo-Jewry 184 Chapter Six: Translation and Transformation: The Englishing of Jewish Culture 215 Afterword 269 Appendix: Moses Mendelssohn through Anglo-Jewish Eyes 275 Index 287
