Jews and Judaism in World History
Jewish upbringing and education. As a young man he was employed as a schoolteacher, and studied Kabbala secretly at night. At so ...
acts as a way to elevate oneself into a state of spiritual ecstasy; and hitbonnenut (contemplation) means avoiding the rote obse ...
Rabbi Elijah and his followers accused the Hasidim of three misdeeds: denigration of rabbinic scholars, challenging the authorit ...
court and at the table of the zaddik, even though this meant leaving his wife alone to raise children, manage the household, and ...
During the 130 years from 1750 to 1880, world Jewry proceeded along two different tracks. For Jews in western Europe, most of ce ...
our Dominion dressed as Christians, or were reputed to be Christians ... and perform all of your ceremonies, rites, laws, and cu ...
Netherlands ... they therefore must enjoy, possess, and profit by the condi- tions, rights, and advantages provided by the Treat ...
Yet the most celebrated case was that of Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza is widely known as one of the leading figures of seventeenth-ce ...
pervading religious ecumenism, culminating with the Puritan revolution in As in the Netherlands, this religious atmosphere was ...
using messianic arguments such as the millenarianesque argument Ketzeh ha-aretz(literally, the end of the earth, a reference to ...
The discrepancy between legal and social emancipation is equally crucial in understanding the conditions for Jews in England its ...
without fanfare or ideological justification, and the states of western Europe had recognized this situation by treating the ost ...
dogma, downplayed the differences between Jews and Christians in favor of the commonalities between them. Simply put, for many t ...
attitude was expressed most vividly in 1781 by Christian Dohm. According to Dohm, a disproportionate number of Jews engaged in m ...
admiration first from Jews and then from the intellectual community. In 1763, he won the Berlin Academy essay contest, thus laun ...
Jews of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. To the duke, he justified same-day burial with a combination of religious justification and reason ...
if I remove my belongings from the lower to the upper floor for safety? ... Christianity ... is built upon Judaism, and if the l ...
latter falling well within the pale of acceptable Jewish behavior. This differ- ence pointed to the fact that ideological justif ...
Abbé Grégoire, a Catholic priest who would later be a member of the national assembly. From these three essays emerged a common ...
squarely by “divesting ourselves of that narrow spirit of corporation and congregation in all civil and political matters not di ...
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