Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and RenaissanceThe first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism. |
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... , “ all remain equal . . . ” The last was a dramatically new concept . The word democracy in this sense had not been used by a modern philosopher . The proofs offered for these political ideas came out of a rigorous ΙΟ EMANCIPATION.
... , “ all remain equal . . . ” The last was a dramatically new concept . The word democracy in this sense had not been used by a modern philosopher . The proofs offered for these political ideas came out of a rigorous ΙΟ EMANCIPATION.
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... philosopher spent his days grinding lenses, then from late in the evening until the middle of the night worked on his ideas, writing books that he realized could never be published during his lifetime. It was too dangerous. The book ...
... philosopher spent his days grinding lenses, then from late in the evening until the middle of the night worked on his ideas, writing books that he realized could never be published during his lifetime. It was too dangerous. The book ...
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... philosopher working with these ideas. But he was one of the first to make clear that the necessary condition for free inquiry in science and religion is a tolerance for differing points of view and that this “tolerance” should be at the ...
... philosopher working with these ideas. But he was one of the first to make clear that the necessary condition for free inquiry in science and religion is a tolerance for differing points of view and that this “tolerance” should be at the ...
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... philosopher's death , Jacques Basnage , a French Protestant living in exile in Holland , published a massive History of the Jews from the time of the destruction of the Sec- ond Temple . Spinoza was the last major figure in his book ...
... philosopher's death , Jacques Basnage , a French Protestant living in exile in Holland , published a massive History of the Jews from the time of the destruction of the Sec- ond Temple . Spinoza was the last major figure in his book ...
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... preoccupied the philosophers , the philosophes , who were pledged to the movement . Toleration is a word with many subtle shades of meaning . Toleration has a golden glow when we talk about accepting someone's 18 EMANCIPATION.
... preoccupied the philosophers , the philosophes , who were pledged to the movement . Toleration is a word with many subtle shades of meaning . Toleration has a golden glow when we talk about accepting someone's 18 EMANCIPATION.
Contents
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The Name of Active Citizen | 62 |
I Shall Maintain Your Freedom | 91 |
It Is Hateful to Be a Jewess | 105 |
Israel Must Be Exemplary for All Peoples | 119 |
Incite the People to Terror | 131 |
Do Not Presume Discriminatory Laws | 228 |
The Jews Are a Nation | 245 |
Throw Out the Jew Itzig Because | 260 |
I Want to Get Out Out Out of | 283 |
The Jewish Question Anxiety About | 294 |
The Truth Is on the March | 313 |
Everywhere an Intruder Never | 328 |
My Honor Has Been Restored | 343 |
I Try to Tell My Grief and It All Becomes | 141 |
Since I Was Born a Slave I Love Freedom | 157 |
Let the Rothschilds Sanctify Themselves | 171 |
We Have a Solemn Mission to Perform | 195 |
The Tradition of Dead Generations | 206 |
Acknowledgments | 365 |
Bibliography | 381 |
Index | 391 |
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Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution ... Michael Goldfarb No preview available - 2010 |
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