The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism

by Arthur Hertzberg (Author), Arthur Hertzberg (Author)

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  1990

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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.