The second volume of Shmuel Feiner's The Jewish Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1750 to 1800, a time of even greater upheavals, tensions, and challeng

The second volume of Shmuel Feiner's The Jewish Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1750 to 1800, a time of even greater upheavals, tensions, and challeng

The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and its most pro

Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspi

Zeev Gries’s analysis of what books were being published and where shows the importance of the printed book in disseminating religious and secular ideas, crea