num_pages: 420
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.
language: English
title: The French Enlightenment and the Jews
titlecomplete: The French Enlightenment and the Jews
genres: France, History, Judaism, Jewish, European History, Antisemitism
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Columbia University Press