Voltaire's Jews and modern Jewish identity rethinking the Enlightenment /

Mitchell, Harvey

Voltaire's Jews and modern Jewish identity rethinking the Enlightenment / [Texte imprimé] : Harvey Mitchell - London ; New York : Routledge, c2008 - 1 vol. (XXXXIV-257 p.) ; 24 cm - Routledge Jewish studies series ; 27 . - Routledge Jewish studies series (Routledge, London) .

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Spinoza, Bayle, and Voltaire: issues in contention -- Images, imagination, tolerance, and the uses of reason -- Voltaire's Jews among the world's peoples and nations -- Voltaire's Jews in the world of commerce and their capacity for critical thought and social inclusion -- Voltaire reading of the Old Testament -- Frence Judaism reinvented and the Enlightenment disputed -- Jewish identity and the Jewish question: the power of ancestral voices in a post-Enlightenment age

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