Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

English

"Bregoli's work is groundbreaking not only because it refines our understanding of how the Enlightenment impacted different Jewish communities, but also because it forces us to re-evaluate the centrality of anti-religious thinking in the Enlightenment in general. Bregoli's study of Livorno provides a compelling case of a community that embraced modernity and the Enlightenment, even though it resisted the religious reforms that often came with it."