The French Enlightenment and the Jews

The French Enlightenment and the Jews

The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism

by Arthur Hertzberg

420 pages· ISBN 9780231073851
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Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned not as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution, but within the Enlightenment and Revolution themselves." He finds that modern anti-Semitism owes less to Christian theological mentality than to doctrinaire libertarianism of figures such as Voltaire, d'Holbach, Diderot, and Marat.

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