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Chapter 10 On the Decline of Judaism: The Last Decade

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. Introduction Sins and Doubts 1
  5. PART I. Liberty and Heresy, 1700–1760
  6. Chapter 1 Pleasures and Liberation from Religious Supervision 29
  7. Chapter 2 Temptations of Fashion and Passion 48
  8. Chapter 3 The Mystical Sect: Subversive Sabbateans 64
  9. Chapter 4 The Rationalist Sect: Neo-Karaites and Deists 84
  10. PART II. A New World, 1760–80
  11. Chapter 5 Providence Is Tested: Secularization on the Rise in the 1760s 103
  12. Chapter 6 The Supremacy of Nature: Deists on the Margins 119
  13. Chapter 7 The Emergence of the New World 142
  14. PART III. The Overturned World, 1780–90
  15. Chapter 8 Scandals and Rebellions 163
  16. Chapter 9 Replacing Mosaic Laws with Laws of Freedom 180
  17. PART IV. Anxieties and Confrontations, 1790–1800
  18. Chapter 10 On the Decline of Judaism: The Last Decade 205
  19. Chapter 11 Soon Our Faith Will Be Lost: Deists and Believers 229
  20. Summary Free Jews and the Origins of Secularization 251
  21. Notes 265
  22. Bibliography 293
  23. Index 317
  24. Acknowledgments 329
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe
This chapter is in the book The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201895.205

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. Introduction Sins and Doubts 1
  5. PART I. Liberty and Heresy, 1700–1760
  6. Chapter 1 Pleasures and Liberation from Religious Supervision 29
  7. Chapter 2 Temptations of Fashion and Passion 48
  8. Chapter 3 The Mystical Sect: Subversive Sabbateans 64
  9. Chapter 4 The Rationalist Sect: Neo-Karaites and Deists 84
  10. PART II. A New World, 1760–80
  11. Chapter 5 Providence Is Tested: Secularization on the Rise in the 1760s 103
  12. Chapter 6 The Supremacy of Nature: Deists on the Margins 119
  13. Chapter 7 The Emergence of the New World 142
  14. PART III. The Overturned World, 1780–90
  15. Chapter 8 Scandals and Rebellions 163
  16. Chapter 9 Replacing Mosaic Laws with Laws of Freedom 180
  17. PART IV. Anxieties and Confrontations, 1790–1800
  18. Chapter 10 On the Decline of Judaism: The Last Decade 205
  19. Chapter 11 Soon Our Faith Will Be Lost: Deists and Believers 229
  20. Summary Free Jews and the Origins of Secularization 251
  21. Notes 265
  22. Bibliography 293
  23. Index 317
  24. Acknowledgments 329
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