Edited by Ari Joskowicz and Ethan B. Katz
Introduction. Rethinking Jews and Secularism
-Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz
PART I. NARRATIONS
Chapter 1. "Our Rabbi Baruch": Spinoza and Radical Jewish Enlightenment
-Daniel B. Schwartz
Chapter 2. Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism
-Jonathan Marc Gribetz
Chapter 3. Tradition and the Hidden: Hannah Arendt's Secularization of Jewish Mysticism
-Vivian Liska
PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 4. Messianism Without Messiah: Messianism, Religion, and Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought
-Christoph Schulte
Chapter 5. In the Name of the Devil: Reading Walter Benjamin's "Agesilaus Santander"
-Galili Shahar
Chapter 6. The Secular and Its Dissonances in Modern Jewish Literature
-Michal Ben-Horin
Chapter 7. Civil Society, Secularization, and Modernity Among Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe
-Scott Ury
Chapter 8. Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslims and Religion as Race in Occupied France
-Ethan Katz
PART III. ADAPTATIONS
Chapter 9. Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwärmerei
-Rachel Manekin
Chapter 10. Secularism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Conflicting Strategies in Modern Orthodox Fiction
-Eva Lezzi
Chapter 11. Secularism and Nationalism: The Modern Halakhic Discourse on the Identity and Boundaries of the Jewish Community
-Arye Edrei
PART IV. NEW CONCEPTIONS: A FORUM
Chapter 12. Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neosecular View of Religion
-David N. Myers
Chapter 13. Secularism, the Christian Ambivalence Toward the Jews, and the Notion of Exile
-Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Chapter 14. "Eleven Calendars": Beyond Secular Time
-Andrea Schatz
Notes
List of Contributors
Index