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Moses Hirschel and enlightenment Breslau : a city and its Jews in the late eighteenth century / David Heywood Jones

Heywood Jones, David [Verfasserin/Verfasser, Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan [2020], [2021] [©2021]

viii, 264 Seiten

Englisch

Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2019

3-030-46234-X ; 978-3-030-46234-5

978-3-030-46235-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1225890255     

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 15.71 (Osteuropa) <Geschichte>

*Breslau ; Juden ; Aufklärung ; Geschichte 1740-1818 ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

* Hirschel, Moses [1754-1823] ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

 

Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. The story of Moses Hirschel offers us an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city on the cusp of the 18th century.