Paths of Emancipation

by Birnbaum, Pierre; Katznelson, Ira

• ISBN13: 9780691034614
• ISBN10: 0691034613
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West. In this volume, one of the first to offer a comparative overview of the entry of Jews into state and society, eight leading historians analyze the course of emancipation in Holland, Germany, France, England, the United States, and Italy as well as in Turkey and Russia. The goal is to produce a systematic study of the highly diverse paths to emancipation and to explore their different impacts on Jewish identity, dispositions, and patterns of collective action.Jewish emancipation concerned itself primarily with issues of state and citizenship. Would the liberal and republican values of the Enlightenment guide governments in establishing the terms of Jewish citizenship? How would states react to Jews seeking to become citizens and to remain meaningfully Jewish? The authors examine these issues through discussions of the entry of Jews into the military, the judicial system, business, and academic and professional careers, for example, and through discussions of their assertive political activity.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Geoffrey Alderman, Hans Daalder, Werner E. Mosse, Aron Rodrigue, Dan V. Segre, and Michael Stanislawski.

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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