Lecture Fifteen: Stepping Stones to Modernity
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Stepping Stones to Modernity
THEO 40217: Jews and Christians
Throughout History
Stepping Stones to Modernity: Jews and Christians Lecture Notes
Late Middle Ages:
Christian interest in Hebrew language and Kabbalah (Jewish mystical literature)
Ghettoization of Western European Jewry
Migration of Jewry to Poland and the East
17th Century Humanism
-Amsterdam: Spinoza and the birth of legal studies
-England: Tolerance—Readmission of Jews to England under Cromwell
18th Century Enlightenment
-Civil Emancipation
-France: Voltaire and the Philosophes
-debates on citizenship after the Revolution
-Germany: “Aufklaerung”—Kant/Lessing
-Moses Mendelssohn (1727-1786)
-Religious Reform
19th Century: Romanticism, Historicism, Nationalism
-Eastern European situation
-Wissenschaft des Judentum (Scientific Study of Judaism): Protestant Paradigm
-late 19th century brings two reactions
-German Unification
-rise of racial antisemtism
-Zionism
20th Century: Migration, Relocation, Destruction and Rebirth
-Move to North America
-German Jewry during last of the Empire
-World War I reshapes Europe
-German Jewry during Weimar
-Shoah
-birth of the state of Israel
Stepping Stones to Modernity: Jews and Christians Lecture Notes
Late Middle Ages:
Christian interest in Hebrew language and Kabbalah (Jewish mystical literature)
Ghettoization of Western European Jewry
Migration of Jewry to Poland and the East
17th Century Humanism
-Amsterdam: Spinoza and the birth of legal studies
-England: Tolerance—Readmission of Jews to England under Cromwell
18th Century Enlightenment
-Civil Emancipation
-France: Voltaire and the Philosophes
-debates on citizenship after the Revolution
-Germany: “Aufklaerung”—Kant/Lessing
-Moses Mendelssohn (1727-1786)
-Religious Reform
19th Century: Romanticism, Historicism, Nationalism
-Eastern European situation
-Wissenschaft des Judentum (Scientific Study of Judaism): Protestant Paradigm
-late 19th century brings two reactions
-German Unification
-rise of racial antisemtism
-Zionism
20th Century: Migration, Relocation, Destruction and Rebirth
-Move to North America
-German Jewry during last of the Empire
-World War I reshapes Europe
-German Jewry during Weimar
-Shoah
-birth of the state of Israel
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