Rites and Passages
Subtitle: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: July 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812220087
Subjects: Judaism; Europe - France; Jewish - General; Social History; History / Jewish; History : Europe - France; History : Social History; Religion / Judaism / History; Judaism - History; Religion; History - General History; Religion - Judaism
First sentence: The wealth of theories seeking to establish when the modern era began reflects a wide range of historical methodologies and considerable disagreement on the essence of modernity itself.