HISTORY 3ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Egalitarianism, Haskalah, Romantic Nationalism
12 Mar 2014
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Jewish life: series of expulsions; subordinate status; social segregation; often sartorially marked; limited to particular occupations, esp. money lending (sometimes forbidden); massacres/pogroms. Industrial revolution (mid 18thc early 19th c) Some growth in opportunities for jews to participate economically. Humanism, individualism, rationalism, egalitarianism, and secular state. Brutal bargain = the jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals comte de clermont-tonnere. Moses mendelssohn (1729-1786): introduced external philosophical idea to the study of judaism; jewish life as voluntary. Literary-historical critical analysis of jewishness and jewish texts. -> ethics and values divinely revealed, but details of jewish law tied to earlier societies. Reform: 85% of german jews by end of 19th century variety of forms of orthodoxy.
