The Early Modern Period in Jewish History: Towards a Trans-Regional and Cross-Cultural Interpretation

1. “Early Modernity” in Jewish and World Historiography. Framing the Question and Outlining the Project

2. Mobility, Social Mixing and the Formation of New Communal Structures

3. Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit (1797)

4. Knowledge Explosion: Print, Expansion of Cultural Horizons, and the Jewish University Student

5. The Crisis of Rabbinic Authority