{"product_id":"jewish-enlightenment-in-an-english-key-anglojewrys-construction-of-modern-jewish-thought-9780691155517","title":"Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorians 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403792818519,"sku":"9780691155517","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-enlightenment-in-an-english-key-anglojewrys-construction-of-modern-jewish-thought-9780691155517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}