Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Frankel, Jonathan; Zipperstein, Steven J.

ISBN 10: 0521402840 / ISBN 13: 9780521402842

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1992

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• Titre: Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521402840
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521402842
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

A thorough reassessment by fourteen leading historians of the supposed period of Jewish assimilation.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The early and middle decades of the nineteenth century in Europe (1815–81) have long been regarded as the major period of assimilation in post-medieval Jewish history. Moreover the established historiography dealing with those years has tended to focus on the processes of accommodation and communal disintegration. However, the historical processes as analysed in this collection of essays emerge as multi- rather than uni-directional, far more variegated and complex than usually described hitherto. Contradictory trends were associated with different localities, levels of development and ideological allegiances. Traditional loyalties, new socio-ethnic structures, communal cohesion, romantic rediscoveries of the past and the political solidarity engendered by the struggle for emancipation across Europe, all served to counterbalance the homogenizing forces of modernity. Bringing together the work of fourteen leading historians, this book represents a major contribution to the revision, which has gained momentum in recent years, of the traditional historiography.