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Title:
Leviathan oder Ueber Religion in Rücksicht des Judenthums

Author:
Ascher, Saul

Place of publication:
Berlin

Publisher:
Frankesche Buchhandlung

Date:
1792

Physical description:
246 p. ; 18 cm

Language:
German

Subject:
Enlightenment -- Germany -- History
Haskalah -- Germany -- Early works to 1800
Judaism

Description:
In his Leviathan Ascher, a bookseller and publicist, proposed a religious
reform as a prerequisite for acceptance of the Jews as full citizens of the state*

Shelfmark:
Mont 60g29

Cite as:
Foyle–Montefiore Collection, Leopold Zunz Collection
Leopold Müller Memorial Library

Book ID number:
002

Full text digitised by:
Leopold Muller Memorial Library

Digitised (date):
November/December 2010

 

* Feiner, S. & N. Naimark Goldberg, Cultural Revolution in Berlin, Oxford: 2011, p. 72.


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