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Fertig, Ralph David

 
9780595163830: Love and Liberation: When the Jews Tore Down the Ghetto Walls
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595163831 ISBN 13 : 9780595163830
Editeur : iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

In the Breslau ghetto in the late eighteenth century, Jonah seeks to avenge his father, unjustly imprisoned by Prussians. He confronts subjugation from without the Jewish community and the oppression of religious fundamentalism within. When his Jacobin cell is discovered, he flees westward, joins the French revolutionists, and marches with Napoleon across Italy and the Germanic states, battling his way back to Hadassah, the schoolmaster's daughter, the love he seeks to liberate.Aaron finds comfort in the Talmud and tries to express its message of social justice in a context suited to the Age of Enlightenment, against the exuberance of the Chasids, on the one hand, and the growing impetus for assimilation, on the other. Widowed upon the death of Hadassah's sister, he finds a partnership with her in the nascence of Reform Judaism.Nathan, whose father manipulates the ambiguity of the period, builds economic opportunity as capitalism emerges from the wreckage of feudalism. He faces conflicts in values between the salon society of affluent Berlin Jews, the intellectual heritage of his wife's family, and the pushcart peddlers of the ghetto, among whom Aaron and Hadassah minister.Their interactions with one another and with representative and real characters of the time reveal the struggles and forces that culminate for each in their own personal liberation and that of Jews throughout Europe.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In the Breslau ghetto in the late eighteenth century, Jonah seeks to avenge his father, unjustly imprisoned by Prussians. He confronts subjugation from without the Jewish community and the oppression of religious fundamentalism within. When his Jacobin cell is discovered, he flees westward, joins the French revolutionists, and marches with Napoleon across Italy and the Germanic states, battling his way back to Hadassah, the schoolmaster's daughter, the love he seeks to liberate.Aaron finds comfort in the Talmud and tries to express its message of social justice in a context suited to the Age of Enlightenment, against the exuberance of the Chasids, on the one hand, and the growing impetus for assimilation, on the other. Widowed upon the death of Hadassah's sister, he finds a partnership with her in the nascence of Reform Judaism.Nathan, whose father manipulates the ambiguity of the period, builds economic opportunity as capitalism emerges from the wreckage of feudalism. He faces conflicts in values between the salon society of affluent Berlin Jews, the intellectual heritage of his wife's family, and the pushcart peddlers of the ghetto, among whom Aaron and Hadassah minister.Their interactions with one another and with representative and real characters of the time reveal the struggles and forces that culminate for each in their own personal liberation and that of Jews throughout Europe.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ralph Fertig has fought for social justice as a Federal Administrative Judge, Civil Rights Lawyer, Social Agency Administrator, Sociologist, Instructor, writer, President of the Humanitarian Law Project, Synagogue Trustee, a veteran Freedom Rider, human rights advocate through Americans for Democratic Action, progressive inter-faith, Jewish, community-based, and international organizations.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595163831
ISBN 13 
9780595163830
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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Personne responsable
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