The period from 1750 to 1870 was the formative age of the Jewish experience in modern Europe. The Jews completed their migration from segregation on the margins of early modern society to integration in the modern state, a process which encompassed the alteration of political and civil rights and the transformation of economic, social and demographic patterns. In "From East to West" a group of scholars focus on different countries (England, France, Poland, Russia, the Ottoman Empire), on various social types (bankers, businessmen, intellectuals, revolutionaries, rabbis) and on a rich diversity of Jewish identification (enlightenment, Reform, Orthodoxy, Hasidism, secularism, apostasy). They apply the methods of biographical and generational study to provide a history of European Jewry.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-631-16602-3 (9780631166023)
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Part 1 Getting on in the world: patriarchs and patricians - the Gradis family of 18th-century Bordeaux, Richard Menkiss; Abraham de Camondo of Istanbul - the transformation of Jewish philanthropy, Alan Rodrigue; majority faith - Dreyfus before the affair, Michael Burns. Part 2 Redifing community: the right to be equal - Zalkind Hourwitz and the revolution of 1789 - Frances Malino; preacher, teacher, publicist - Joseph Wolf and the ideology of emancipation, David Sorkin; Mordechai Aaron Guenzburg - a Lithuanian Maskil faces modernity - Israel Bartal. Part 3 Testing assimilation: the chequered career of "Jew" King: a study in Anglo-Jewish social history, Todd M. Endelmann; Jewish upper crust and Berlin Jewih enlightenment - the family of Daniel Itzig, Steven Lowenstein; work, love and Jewishness in the life of Fanny Lewald, Deborah Hertz. Part 4 Inventing orthodoxy: towards a biography of Hatam Sofer - Jacob Katz; Zevi Hirsch Kalischer and the origins of religious Zionism - Jody Elizabeth Myers; the anglicization of orthodoxy - the Adlers, father and son, Eugene C. Black.
