Lecture Fifteen: Stepping Stones to Modernity

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Stepping Stones to Modernity

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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	Info Lecture Fifteen: Stepping Stones to Modernity Document Actions Stepping Stones to Modernity 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 Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ehartzer. (2007, March 14). Lecture Fifteen: Stepping Stones to Modernity. Retrieved November 07, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/theology/jews-and-christians-throughout-history/lecture-fifteen-stepping-stones-to-modernity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.