The salon movement of the early Romantic period is both heralded (for its boundary-crossing, anti-hierarchy, seemingly liberal mode of creating inter-religious, inter-class, and inter-gender spaces) and reviled (for basically the same reasons). How is the salon both de-valued and over-valued because of its association both with women and with Jews? Do you see (or can you make) references (or echoes) of it in either the rise of Liberal Judaism and in (our) contemporary society?
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