The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism / Edition 1

by Arthur Hertzberg

Overview

Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned not as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution, but within the Enlightenment and Revolution themselves." He finds that modern anti-Semitism owes less to Christian theological mentality than to doctrinaire libertarianism of figures such as Voltaire, d'Holbach, Diderot, and Marat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231073851
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/20/1990
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	420
Sales rank:	967,322
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Arthur Hertzberg, professor of Jewish studies at New York University, is the author of numerous books, including The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader and The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History (Columbia).