Paths of Emancipation

by Birnbaum, Pierre; Katznelson, Ira

• ISBN13: 9780691034607
• ISBN10: 0691034605
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

In 1987, Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson co-taught a course, 'The Modernization of the Jews, ' at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. At the time, Birnbaum was deeply involved in research on French Jewry and Katznelson sought to extend his interest in institutions and political identities to Jewish subjects.What quickly became apparent in the construction of the curriculum and in week-to-week teaching was that this kind of analytical and comparative effort was not a feature of the most important extant work.This book was first imagined as a response, and its structure and content is marked by the ambitions and goals Birnbaum and Katznelson identified when they taught their seminar.

Table of Contents

Preface
Emancipation and the Liberal Offer	p. 3
Dutch Jews in a Segmented Society	p. 37
From "Schutzjuden" to "Deutsche Staatsburger Judischen Glaubens": The Long and Bumpy Road of Jewish Emancipation in Germany	p. 59
Between Social and Political Assimilation: Remarks on the History of Jews in France	p. 94
English Jews or Jews of the English Persuasion? Reflections on the Emancipation of Anglo-Jewry	p. 128
Between Separation and Disappearance: Jews on the Margins of American Liberalism	p. 157
The Emancipation of Jews in Italy	p. 206
From Millet to Minority: Turkish Jewry	p. 238
Russian Jewry, the Russian State, and the Dynamics of Jewish Emancipation	p. 262
List of Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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