Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism

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Cover Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODUCTION PART I. BENAMOZEGH’S TEXTS AND CONTEXTS: MOROCCO, THE RISORGIMENTO, AND THE DISPUTED MANUSCRIPT 1 The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew 2 An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento 3 The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher 4 Expanding His Readership: Benamozegh’s Turn to French 5 The Afterlives of a Manuscript PART II. UNIVERSALISM AS AN INDEX OF JEWISH MODERNITY 6 Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism 7 Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity: The Role and Limits of the Noahide Laws 8 Cosmopolitanism and Universalism: The Political Value of Judaism in an Age of Nations 9 Universalism in Particularism: Benamozegh’s Legacies, between Levinas and Religious Zionism PART III. BEYOND BINARIES: KABBALAH AS A TOOL FOR MODERNITY 10 Kabbalah: Reason and the Power of Myth 11 Beyond Dualism: Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites 12 Kabbalah as Politics PART IV. PAST ENMITY: MODES OF INTERRELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT AND JEWISH SELF-AFFIRMATION 13 Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered 14 “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact 15 Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions 16 Modes of Interreligious Engagement: From Theory to Social Practices EPILOGUE Notes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z