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The second volume of Shmuel Feiner's The Jewish Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1750 to 1800, a time of even greater upheavals, tensions, and challenges. The changes that began to emerge at the beginning of the eighteenth century matured in the second half.Feiner explores how political considerations of the Jewish minority throughout Europe began to expand. From the "Jew Bill" of 1753 in Britain, to the surprising series of decrees issued by Joseph II of Austria that expanded tolerance in Austria, to the debate over emancipation in revolutionary France, the lives of the Jews of Europe became ever more intertwined with the political, social, economic, and cultural fabric of the continent.The Jewish Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: A European Biography, 1750-1800 concludes Feiner's landmark study of the history of Jewish populations in the period. By combining an examination of the broad and profound processes that changed the familiar world from the ground up with personal experiences of those who lived through them, it allows for a unique explanation of these momentous events

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age -- Part I. 1700 -- 1. Pictures from Married Life: Glikl the Daughter of Leib between Hamburg and Metz -- 2. "Rise Up and Succeed": Absolutism and Court Jews in Baroque Culture -- 3. Jews in the News: The Angry Masses, a Holy Society, and"Judaism Unmasked" -- 4. Between Enlightened Thought and an Imaginary Universe -- Part II. 1701-1725 -- 5. "Everyone Wants to Be Happy": Dangers and Amusements -- 6. "Our Miserable Brethren": Jews in Time of War -- 7. Melancholy, Career, and Travels: Five Life Stories -- 8. Christians versus Jews: Bitter and Violent Relations -- 9. From London to Jerusalem: Confrontations and Disputes -- 10. The Storm over the "Hypocritical Serpent" -- 11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge -- Part III. 1725-1750 -- 12. To Silence the "Fellow from Padua": Moses H.ayim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening -- 13. Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Ba'al Shem Tov and Jew Süss -- 14. Contradictory Tendencies: Hostility, Violence, and"True Happiness" -- 15. "An Indelible Stain": War and Expulsion -- 16. A Vision of the Future: Ascent of the Soul, a Path for the Just,and a Teacher of the Perplexed -- 17. Toward Mid-Century: The Awakening of Shame -- Index.

In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world.In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb site at the moment of the explosion, during the first few minutes after the explosion, and in the last moments before the explosion. Aran uncovers the suicide bomber's final preparations before embarking on the suicide mission: the border crossing, the journey toward the designated target, penetration into the site, and the behavior of both sides within it. The book sheds light on the truth of the human bomb.Aran's gritty and often disturbing account is built on a foundation of participant observation with squads of pious Jewish volunteers who gather the scorched fragments of the dead after terrorist attacks; newly revealed documents, including interrogation protocols; interviews with Palestinian armed resistance members and retired Israeli counterterrorism agents; observations of failed suicide terrorists in jail; and conversations with the acquaintances of human bombs.The Smile of the Human Bomb provides new insights on the Middle East conflict, political violence, radicalism, victimhood, ritual, and death and unveils a suicide terrorism scene far different from what is conventionally pictured. In the end, Aran discovers, the suicide terrorist is an unremarkable figure, and the circumstances of his or her recruitment and operation are prosaic and often accidental. The smiling human bomb is neither larger than life nor a monster, but an actor on a human scale. And suicide terrorism is a drama in which clichés and chance events play their role.

"The book tells the life story of an extremely engaging and charming Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic historical events that shaped Jewish experiences in the twentieth century. The story is told ... to two avid listeners: Calvin Goldscheider, a social scientist, and Jeffrey M. Green, a writer and translator. Both the Holocaust and Shmuel's harrrowing experience as a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia figure prominently in ths book, but Shmuel also describes his community in Tarnow, a town in southeastern Poland, in rich detail. After World War II, Shmuel settled in Melbourne, Australia, before eventually immigrating to Israel"--Page 4 of cover