Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity

Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity PDF Author: Jonathan M. Hess
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Book Description
In the analysis of the debates in Germany over Jews, Judaism and Jewish emancipation in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jonathan M. Hess reconstructs a crucial chapter in the history of secular anti-Semitism. He examines not only the thinking of German intellectuals of the time but also that of Jewish writers, revealing the connections between anti-Semitism and visions of modernity, and the Jewish responses to the treat posed by these connections.