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  • The Emancipationists

    Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship

    by David Sorkin ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of the roots of modern Jewish politicsThis is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality—a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation politics. The emancipationists, most of whom had received a formal secular education, pioneered the key practices of modern Jewish politics: law, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Jewish Emancipation

    A History across Five Centuries

    by Professor David Sorkin ...
    The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to ... Read more

    Was $56.09 CAD Now $39.59 CAD

  • Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment

    by David Sorkin ...
    Series Book 8 - Jewish Thinkers
    Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet 'the Socrates of Berlin'. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between reason and revelation in an age contending with individual rights and religious toleration. He did ... Read more

    $6.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Emancipationists

    Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship

    by David Sorkin ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    A thought-provoking exploration of the roots of modern Jewish politicsThis is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality―a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation politics. The emancipationists, most of whom had received a formal secular education, pioneered the key practices of modern Jewish politics: law, ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD

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