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: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism
publisher: Columbia University Press