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8 - Rethinking Halakhah in Modern Eastern Europe: Mysticism, Antinomianism, Positivism

from Part II - Enlightenment, Emancipation, and the Invention of Jewish “Religion”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2017

Christine Hayes
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Yale University, Connecticut
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