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The French Enlightenment and the Jews

By Arthur Hertzberg

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0231073852, 9780231073851
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12818498 bytes)
Edition
Revised ed.
Pages
420\433
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-07-30 02:17:41

Description

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.

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