Author(s): Clémence Boulouque
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2020
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INTRODUCTION
PART I. BENAMOZEGH’S TEXTS AND CONTEXTS: MOROCCO, THE RISORGIMENTO, AND THE DISPUTED MANUSCRIPT
1 The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew
2 An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento
3 The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher
4 Expanding His Readership: Benamozegh’s Turn to French
5 The Afterlives of a Manuscript
PART II. UNIVERSALISM AS AN INDEX OF JEWISH MODERNITY
6 Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism
7 Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity: The Role and Limits of the Noahide Laws
8 Cosmopolitanism and Universalism: The Political Value of Judaism in an Age of Nations
9 Universalism in Particularism: Benamozegh’s Legacies, between Levinas and Religious Zionism
PART III. BEYOND BINARIES: KABBALAH AS A TOOL FOR MODERNITY
10 Kabbalah: Reason and the Power of Myth
11 Beyond Dualism: Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites
12 Kabbalah as Politics
PART IV. PAST ENMITY: MODES OF INTERRELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT AND JEWISH SELF-AFFIRMATION
13 Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered
14 “The Iron Crucible” and Loci of Religious Contact
15 Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions
16 Modes of Interreligious Engagement: From Theory to Social Practices
EPILOGUE
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