The French Enlightenment and the Jews. / Arthur Hertzberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hertzberg, Arthur.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

הרצברג, ארתור.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--France--Political and social conditions--History.

Jews.

Jews--France--Social conditions--History.

Antisemitism.

History.

Social conditions.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

France.

Intellectual life.

Jews--France--History--18th century.

Jews--France--Social conditions.

Enlightenment--France.

Enlightenment.

Antisemitism--France--History--18th century.

France--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 420 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Columbia University Press, 1968. Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5728.

Summary:

Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned not as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution, but within the Enlightenment and Revolution themselves." He finds that modern anti-Semitism owes less to Christian theological mentality than to doctrinaire libertarianism of figures such as Voltaire, d'Holbach, Diderot, and Marat.

Contents:

Introduction

The Beginning of the Resettlement

Colbert, Spinoza, Bossuet, and Bayle

The century that led to the revolution

From Mercantilism to Free Trade

The culture of the Jews

The Jewish community

Churchmen and the Jews

The men of the Enlightenment

The Revolution.

Notes:

"This book is about the origins of the Emancipation of the Jews and the sources of modern anti-Semitism."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-391) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim & Adena Potok June 1968 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Other Format:

Online version: Hertzberg, Arthur. French Enlightenment and the Jews.

ISBN:

0231073852

9780231073851

OCLC:

408597