Voltaire's Jews and modern Jewish identity : rethinking the Enlightenment / Harvey Mitchell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mitchell, Harvey
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:	Routledge Jewish studies series
Subjects:	Voltaire, > 1694-1778. Antisemitism > France > History. Antisemitism > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Enlightenment and its discontents
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 and the Old Testament
French 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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