Voltaire's Jews and modern Jewish identity: rethinking the Enlightenment
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
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Routledge
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Routledge Jewish studies series
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27
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]233[-248( and index
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Harvey Mitchell
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Spinoza, Bayle, and Voltaire: issues in contention -- Images, imagination, tolerance, and the uses of reason -- Voltaire's Jews among the world's peoples and nations -- Voltaire's Jews in the world of commerce and their capacity for critical thought and social inclusion -- Voltaire reading of the Old Testament -- Frence Judaism reinvented and the Enlightenment disputed -- Jewish identity and the Jewish question: the power of ancestral voices in a post-Enlightenment age