Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau: A City and its Jews in the Late Eighteenth Century
Heywood Jones, David
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. An intellectual biography of Moses Hirschel offers an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city at the turn of the 18th century.
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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2020-10-17
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783030462345
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46235-2
Dimensions: 210cm x148cm
Pages: 264