Emancipation How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

by Goldfarb, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781416547976
• ISBN10: 1416547975
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-23
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesa transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression.Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.

Author Biography

For almost two decades, Michael Goldfarb was public radio's voice in London, first, as NPR's London Bureau Chief, then as Senior Correspondent of Inside Out, the award-winning public radio documentary program. He has won the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and British radio's highest honor, the Sony Award. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Emancipation
Everything in the Universe Is Changing	p. 3
Hold Fast to the Religion of Your Fathers	p. 22
The Means to Render the Jews More Useful and Happy?	p. 37
No One Shall Be Troubled for His Religion	p. 50
The Name of "Active Citizen"	p. 62
I Shall Maintain Your Freedom	p. 91
Reformation
It is Hateful to Be a Jewess	p. 105
Israel Must Be Exemplary for All Peoples	p. 119
Incite the People to Terror	p. 131
I Try to Tell My Grief and It All Becomes Comic	p. 141
Since I Was Born a Slave I Love Freedom More than You Do	p. 157
Let the Rothschilds Sanctify Themselves. Let Them Speak to Kings	p. 171
Revolution
We Have a Solemn Mission to Perform	p. 195
The Tradition of Dead Generations Weights on the Brains of the Living	p. 206
Do Not Presume Discriminatory Laws Can Be Tolerated	p. 228
Consolidation
The Jews Are a Nation	p. 245
Throw Out the Jew Itzig, Because He Takes Whatever He Sees	p. 260
Renaissance
I Want to Get Out ... Out! Out of the Ghetto	p. 283
The Jewish Question: Anxiety About My Children	p. 294
The Truth is on the March	p. 313
Everywhere an Intruder, Never Welcomed	p. 328
My Honor Has Been Restored	p. 343
Epilogue: Every Jew Has His System	p. 347
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Notes	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 381
Index	p. 391
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