The Age of Enlightenment is the historical epoch of the 18th century, which emphasized reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy and in which many changes took place on a philosophical, social and political level.

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• An Ashkenazic-Sephardic Marriage against the Father’s Will (Monika Richarz)
• Appeal for the Poor of the Triple Congregation (Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek) of March 7,1789 (Arno Herzig)
• Arts and Culture (Anthony Kauders)
• Economy and Occupational Patterns (Uffa Jensen)
• Education and Learning (Ingrid Lohmann)
• Hebrew Language Studies between Christian Theology and the Enlightenment. The Academic High School in Hamburg (Achim Rohde)
• Law and Politics (Uffa Jensen)
• Leisure and Sports (Kirsten Heinsohn)
• Religion and Identity (Andreas Brämer)
• Scholarship (Lilian Türk)
• The Hamburg Verein für Kranken=Pflege and the modernization of Jewish voluntary societies in the early 19th century (Benjamin Baader)
• The Local Chapter Hamburg-Altona as Part of the Zionist Movement in Germany (Sabrina Schütz)