The Jewish Enlightenment (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Contributors: Chaya Naor (Translator)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780812237559
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; c 1700 to c 1800; Jewish - General; History; Religion; History - General History; Europe; Jewish learning and scholarship; Judaism - History; History / Jewish; Haskalah; 18th century; Intellectual life; Jews
First sentence: In the winter of 1702, a young Jewish student walked through the corridors of the faculty of medicine at the University of Frankfurt-on-Oder, his heart consumed by a sense of despair and frustration.