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Introduction: Enlightenment And Its Discontents -- Spinoza, Bayle, And Voltaire: Issues In Contention -- Images, Imagination, Tolerance And The Uses Of Reason -- Voltaire's Jews Among The World's Peoples And Nations -- Voltaire's Jews In The World Of Commerce And Their Capacity For Critical Thought And Social Inclusion -- Voltaire's Reading Of The Old Testament -- French Judaism Reinvented And The Enlightenment Disputed -- Jewish Identity And The Jewish Question: The Power Of Ancestral Voices In A Post-enlightenment Age. Harvey Mitchell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [199]-248) And Index.