Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau: A City and Its Jews in the Late Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9783030462376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

David Heywood Jones

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Jewish Historiography

3. Socio-Ethnic History of Breslau History of Breslau

4. Moses Hirschel – A critical biography

5. Haskalah and Enlightenment in Silesia

6. Jewish Rights, Human Rights and Anti-Semitism

7. Hirschel and the Orthodoxy

8. Final Remarks

9. Bibliography

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O autorze

David Heywood Jones is a writer and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. His areas include Memorialization Cultures, Haskalah, German Idealism & Central European Enlightenment history.

Blurb

Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. The story of Moses Hirschel offers us an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city on the cusp of the 18th century.