History of the Jews, Vol. 5 (of 6)
The fifth volume of Heinrich Graetz's History of the Jews, in the English edition of the Jewish Publication Society of America, covers the period from the Cossack massacres of Polish Jews in 1648 to the era of emancipation in central Europe. Graetz describes the readmission of the Jews to England and the work of Manasseh ben Israel, Spinoza and the messianic movement of Sabbatai Zevi, the age of Moses Mendelssohn, the rise of Hasidism, the French Revolution and Napoleon's Sanhedrin, the writers Börne and Heine, the Reform movement and the new science of Judaism, the Damascus blood libel of 1840 and the revolutions of 1848. His judgments are strong and often partisan, especially toward Hasidism. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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History of the Jews, Vol. 5 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz is filed under "History" in the Vinteuil library.
