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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism 1
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PART I. NARRATIONS
- 1. ‘‘Our Rabbi Baruch’’: Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment 25
- Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism 48
- Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt’s Secularization of Jewish Mysticism 65
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PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
- Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought 79
- In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘‘Agesilaus Santander’’ 98
- The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature 115
- Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe 142
- Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France 168
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PART III. ADAPTATIONS
- Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwa¨rmerei 189
- Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction 208
- Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community 232
- Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion 261
- Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile 276
- ‘‘Eleven Calendars’’: Beyond Secular Time 299
- Notes 315
- List of Contributors 395
- Index 399
- Acknowledgments 411
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism 1
-
PART I. NARRATIONS
- 1. ‘‘Our Rabbi Baruch’’: Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment 25
- Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism 48
- Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt’s Secularization of Jewish Mysticism 65
-
PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
- Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought 79
- In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘‘Agesilaus Santander’’ 98
- The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature 115
- Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe 142
- Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France 168
-
PART III. ADAPTATIONS
- Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwa¨rmerei 189
- Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction 208
- Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community 232
- Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion 261
- Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile 276
- ‘‘Eleven Calendars’’: Beyond Secular Time 299
- Notes 315
- List of Contributors 395
- Index 399
- Acknowledgments 411