Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
German History
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,1 (2003) 1-28
Keywords:
Jews
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Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews
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Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Jews History 1500-1800
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Jews History 1500-1800
;
Haskalah
Abstract:
Compares attitudes of the intelligentsia in 18th-century Berlin and Florence toward Jews and Judaism. Shows that intellectuals in the Prussian capital were far more open and unbiased than their Tuscan counterparts. Jews were admitted to academies and intellectual salons in Berlin, while entrance was denied to them in Tuscany. The journals of the early Berlin Enlightenment adopted widely varying positions toward Judaism, while in Florence the unswerving anti-Judaic stance of the learned periodicals began to change only in the late 18th century. Emphasizes that, despite the altered climate at the end of the Enlightenment period, if there was ever a period in German Jewish history that could be deemed balanced, it was the age of the Enlightenment. No wonder that this epoch became such an emotional point of orientation in the 19th century.
DOI:
10.1191/0266355403gh272oa
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