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Shaking the Pillars of Exile: 'Voice of a Fool,' an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Shaking the Pillars of Exile 'Voice of a Fool' an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Author: Talya Fishman
This book explores a heretical blueprint for Jewish modernization written by a Venetian rabbi (under cover of pseudonym) in the early seventeenth century, almost two centuries before political emancipation. The analysis of this text, Kol Sakhal ("Voice of a Fool"), highlights the ways in which it harnessed concepts and methods drawn from ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804728201
ISBN-10: 0804728208
Publication Date: 9/1/1997
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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