{"product_id":"the-jewish-eighteenth-century-9780253049452","title":"The Jewish Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the \"modernity\" of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities.\"—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shmuel Feiner has synthesized the work of the best modern scholars of a half-century of European Jewish history and combined it with his own, original research, to tell the story of a period little known to non-specialists. The result is a narrative that is as authoritative as it is entrancing.\"—Allan Arkush, \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement.\"—Yair Mintzker, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age\u003cbr\u003eI. 1700\u003cbr\u003e1. Pictures from Married Life: Glikl the daughter of Leib between Hamburg and Metz\u003cbr\u003e2. \"Rise up and Succeed\": Absolutism and Court Jews in Baroque Culture\u003cbr\u003e3. Jews in the News: The Angry Masses, a Holy Society, and \"Judaism Unmasked\"\u003cbr\u003e4. Between Enlightened Thought and an Imaginary Universe\u003cbr\u003eII. 1701–1725\u003cbr\u003e5. \"Everyone Wants to be Happy: Dangers and Amusements\u003cbr\u003e6. \"Our Miserable Brethren\": Jews in Time of War\u003cbr\u003e7. Melancholy, Career, and Travels: Five Life Stories\u003cbr\u003e8. Christians versus Jews: Bitter and Violent Relations\u003cbr\u003e9. From London to Jerusalem: Confrontations and Disputes\u003cbr\u003e10. The Challenge of Sabbateanism: The Storm over the \"Hypocritical Serpent\"\u003cbr\u003e11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eIII. 1725-1750\u003cbr\u003e12. To Silence the \"Fellow from Padua\": Moses Haim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening\u003cbr\u003e13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Baal Shem Tov and Jew Süss\u003cbr\u003e14. Contradictory Tendencies: Hostility, Violence, and \"True Happiness\"\u003cbr\u003e15. \"An Indelible Stain\": War and Expulsion\u003cbr\u003e16. A Vision of the Future: Ascent of the Soul, a Path for the Just, and a Teacher of the Perplexed\u003cbr\u003e17. Toward Mid-Century: The Awakening of Shame\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400600363351,"sku":"9780253049452","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253049452.jpg?v=1730471076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jewish-eighteenth-century-9780253049452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}