Jewish emancipation reconsidered : the French and German models / edited by Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenner, Michael, 1964-

Caron, Vicki, 1951-

Kaufmann, Uri R.

Series:

Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts 0459-097X ; 66.

Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts, 0459-097X ; 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Emancipation--France.

Jews.

Jews--Emancipation--Germany.

Jews--Emancipation.

Germany.

Jews--History--1789-1945.

History.

France.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

This volume grew out of a conference held in Tutzing, Germany, in May 2001 entitled: Two paths of emancipation? The German and French Jewish models reconsidered

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

Summary:

A group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms for understanding the processes of Jewish emancipation and acculturation in Western and Central Europe. In the French case, emancipation was achieved during the French Revolution, and it remained in place until 1940, when the Vichy regime came to power. In Germany, emancipation was a far more gradual and piecemeal process, and even after it was achieved in 1871, popular and governmental antisemitism persisted. The essays in this volume, while buttressing many traditional assumptions regarding these two paths of emancipation, simultaneously challenge many others, and thus force us to reconsider the larger processes of Jewish integration and acculturation.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Brenner

Alsace and Southern Germany : the creation of a border / Simon Schwarzfuchs ; comment by Silvie Anne Goldberg

Jewish enlightenment in Berlin and Paris / Frances Malino ; comment by Dominique Bourel

Wissenschaft des Judentums in Germany and the science of Judaism in France in the nineteenth century : tradition and modernity in Jewish scholarship / Perrine Simon-Nahum ; comment by Nils Römer

Celebrating integration in the public sphere in Germany and France / Richard I. Cohen ; comment by Jakob Vogel

The Jewish fight for emancipation in France and Germany / Uri R. Kaufmann ; comment by Ulrich Wyrwa

Kultur and civilisation after the Franco-Prussian War : debates between German and French Jews / Silvia Cresti ; comment by Sandrine Kott

Two communities with a sense of mission : the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden / Eli Bar-Chen ; comment by Aron Rodrigue

Modern antisemitism and Jewish responses in Germany and France, 1880-1914 / Christiane Wiese ; comment by Vicki Caron

Citizenship and acculturation : some reflections on German Jews during the Second Empire and French Jews during the Third Republic / Jacques Ehrenfreund ; comment by Paula Hyman

In the academic sphere : the cases of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel / Pierre Birnbaum ; comment by Peter Pulzer

Towards the phenomenology of the Jewish intellectual : the German and French cases compared / Steven E. Aschheim ; comment by Nancy L. Green

Epilogue. French and German Jewries in the new Europe : convergent itineraries? / Diana Pinto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

316148018X

OCLC:

52774851