Voltaire's Jews and modern Jewish identity
Subtitle: rethinking the Enlightenment
By: Harvey Mitchell.
Series: Routledge Jewish studies series -- 27
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780415776172; 9780203895559
Subjects: Voltaire, -- 1694-1778; Antisemitism -- France -- History; Antisemitism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Spinoza, Bayle, and Voltaire: issues in contention; title: Images, imagination, tolerance, and the uses of reason; title: Voltaire's Jews among the world's peoples and nations; title: Voltaire's Jews in the world of commerce and their capacity for critical thought and social inclusion; title: Voltaire reading of the Old Testament; title: Frence Judaism reinvented and the Enlightenment disputed; title: Jewish identity and the Jewish question: the power of ancestral voices in a post-Enlightenment age.