Paths of emancipation : Jews, states, and citizenship / edited by Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Birnbaum, Pierre.
• Katznelson, Ira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jews--Emancipation.
• Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Jews--Identity.
• Judaism and state.

Physical Description:

x, 308 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0691034605
• 0691034613

OCLC:

31289509