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Early Secularization in Jewish Europe

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Examines the impact of the Spanish-Portuguese diaspora on Jewish secularization in Europe.

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[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the Guerrera team members slain in West Germany the Olympic Games good job out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in heaven I'll say one million Jewish children who were made to be cutting Lucia [Music] whoever heard such beautiful words had an event it is never too little never too late and it is never enough and it is never enough Jewish history sound bites ringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem Jewish historian and tour guide with Jewish history sound bites and this episode today I'm going to speak about the early centuries of in the modern era where the beginning of the Enlightenment the beginning of secularization um explore a little bit about some myths um explore a little bit about some myths uh involving that and some misconceptions and what you know what about the how the secularization of the Jewish people took place in the modern era just obviously touching on the topic it's a huge topic before I get to it there's been tons more feedback that I'm getting still on that review I did on the Ken Burns documentary about the United States and the Holocaust is apparently a very hot

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  1. 0:02[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off
  2. 3:39very interesting as well and another listener shared that Dr Raphael Madoff had significant critique of
  3. 7:16even before we get to today's topic um here I'm going to quote from it I'm
  4. 10:52other Holocaust Scholars you can find it in about 45 seconds on Wikipedia so it really
  5. 14:25Jewish people are not I don't know the exact numbers but you ask the people who
  6. 18:02to secular ideas and secularization of the general Society in Europe so there's this General societal
  7. 21:39ignorant of Jewish life and custom and traditions and sometimes you have the opposite conversos returning
  8. 25:16and the way Jewish Society behaves and the way rabbinic Judaism which he had not been
  9. 28:52atheism seeing God in nature Simpson that kind of stuff and basically means following the philosophy
  10. 32:28it had always had this positive attitude towards outside knowledge and exposure and outside influence but

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