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Pride vs. Ambivalence—The Secular Jewish Dilemma

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Revisiting progressive, secular Jewish values.

By Lawrence Bush

Secularization in Mizrahi Jewish Life
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Mizrahi Jews "believed that just because something was done in the past did not make it sacred."
 
By Michel Abitbol

Jewish Salonieres: Handmaidens of Modernity

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The story of Jewish women who helped shape and encourage the Jewish encounter with modernity.
 
By Emily Bilski and Emily Braun

 
Modernization, Secularization, and the
Refashioning of Jewish Identity
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"Secularization has been one of the most significant historical processes in Jewish history."
Now we learn why.
 
By Shmuel Feiner

The First Secular Jews
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If you thought secular Judaism began with Spinoza, guess again.

By Anita Novinsky


Jews in the Ottoman Empire
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Eyal Ginio explores secularization in the Ottoman Empire and its effect on the region's Jews.
By Eyal Ginio

 
Jewish Women of the Frontier
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Why it's time to forget the stereotypes about
grizzled Clint Eastwood-types.
By Elizabeth Jameson and Andrea Kalinowski

 
An Intellectual History of Secularism
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Max Weber, 1894.
A scholar's notes.
By Gregory Kaplan

 


The New Order of the Ages

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Exploring the modern
origins of secularism.

By Barry Kosmin

Epicurus' Jewish Legacy
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Yaakov Malkin explores the
ancient Jewish tradition of heresy.
 
By Yaakov Malkin
 

The Jewish Century

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Nineteenth-century Jews championed secularism and enlightenment.

By Yuri Slezkine

Stalin's Forgotten Zion
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A look at one of Jewish History's most surprising—and almost universally forgotten—Zionist experiments.
 
By Zvi Gitelman


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