The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824
By Michael A. Meyer.
Description
Donated by Ruth Reidbord. Until the 18th century Jews lived in Christian Europe, spiritually and often physically removed form the stream of European culture. During the Enlightenment intellectual Europe accepted a philosophy which, by the universality of its ideals, reached out to embrace the Jew within the greater community of man. The Jew began to feel European, and his traditional identity became a problem for the first time. the response of the Jewish intellectual leadership in Germany to this crisis is the subject of this book. Chief among those men who struggled with the problems of ...
ISBN(s)
0814314708, 9780814314708
