The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French officer, was falsely accused of treason. The case exposed deep ...

I argued that the Jewish Enlightenment was not merely a subset of the broader European Enlightenment—it was something distinct, something rooted in a cultural and intellectual tradition that ...

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Eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant, a key figure of the European Enlightenment, referred to European Jews as “Palestinians in our midst,” capturing the Orientalism at the heart of ...

Jews rebelled because they had been prohibited ... May the Hanukkah candles help to bring lasting light and enlightenment to a world that badly needs it. (c)2024 the Reading Eagle (Reading ...

Berlin is the place where the Jewish Enlightenment came into being, where there was this big experiment of acculturation, and in the Weimar Republic, this incredible symbiosis of Jews and Germany ...

Jewish philosophers in the Enlightenment era. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic, and postcolonial outlook would balance the urgent current need for a universalistic ...

The Haredim can trace their roots back to 19th-century Eastern Europe: a community of religious scholars that grew as a response to the Jewish Enlightenment and the spread of secular ideology and ...

In Berlin 40,000 people gathered to hear German Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels give a speech in Berlin's Opera Square. He declared "the era of extreme Jewish ...