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Judaism Within Modernity: Essays on Jewish History and Religion

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A collection of essays that explore the effects of modernization on Jewish self-understanding. Over the last three centurles, the Jewish experience has been profoundly affected by modernity, which Meyer defines as not only technological advance, cultural innovation, and reliance upon human reason but also as the adaptation of Jews to a modern framework within non-Jewish economies, societies, and cultures. Judaism within Modernity begins with an exploration of Jewish historiography and the problems of periodization in modern ...

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Judaism Within Modernity: Essays on Jewish History and Religion 2001, Wayne State University Press, Detroit

ISBN-13: 9780814328743

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