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- The first English language reference on Enlightenment Breslau and Silesia
- Offers a critical approach to standard interpretations of Jewish history in Central Europe
- Explores a new way of looking at and interpreting German and German Jewish history towards the end of the 18th century
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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. An intellectual biography of Moses Hirschel offers an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city at the turn of the 18th century.
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About the author
David Heywood Jones is a writer and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. His areas include Memorialization Cultures, Haskalah, German Idealism & Central European Enlightenment history.
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Book Title: Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau
Book Subtitle: A City and its Jews in the Late Eighteenth Century
Authors: David Heywood Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46235-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46234-5Published: 17 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46237-6Published: 17 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46235-2Published: 16 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 264
Topics: Jewish Cultural Studies, History of Modern Europe, History of Germany and Central Europe