Assimilation and community : the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frankel, Jonathan.

Zipperstein, Steven J., 1950-

Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--History--19th century--Congresses.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Europe--Congresses.

Jews--Emancipation--Europe--Congresses.

Jews--Emancipation.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Jews.

History.

Europe--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Europe.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Contents:

Assimilation and the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe : towards a new historiography? / Jonathan Frankel

Jewish emancipationists in Victorian England : self-imposed limits to assimilation / Israel Finestein

German Jews in Victorian England : a study in drift and defection / Todd M. Endelman

Israelite and Jew : how did nineteenth-century French Jews understand assimilation? / Phyllis Cohen Albert

The social contexts of assimilation : village Jews and city Jews in Alsace / Paula E. Hyman

Nostalgia and 'return to the ghetto' : a cultural phenomenon in Western and Central Europe / Richard I. Cohen

Jewry in the modern period : the role of the 'rising class' in the politicization of Jews in Europe / Michael Graetz

The impact of emancipation on German Jewry : a reconsideration / David Sorkin

Gender and Jewish history in Imperial Germany / Marion A. Kaplan

Jewish assimilation in Habsburg Vienna / Marsha L. Rozenblit

the social vision of Bohemian Jews : intellectuals and community in the 1840s / Hillel J. Kieval

The entrance of Jews into Hungarian society in Vormärz : the case of the 'casinos' / Michael K. Silber

Modernity without emancipation or assimilation? The case of Russian Jewry / Eli Lederhendler

Ahad Ha'am and the politics of assimilation / Steven J. Zipperstein

Ahad Ha'am and the politics of assimilation / Steven J. Zipperstein.

Notes:

Includes papers presented at a conference held at University College London, June 1985, organized jointly by the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College and by the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521402840

0521526019

OCLC:

56615068

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