Jewish emancipation and self-emancipation / Jacob Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Jacob, 1904-1998.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Emancipation.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Zionism--History.

Zionism.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 179 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1986.

Summary:

A collection of articles, all published previously. Pp. 141-152, "Zionism versus Anti-Semitism", first appeared in "Commentary" 67, 4 (1979). (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Contents:

Part I. Emancipation: Jewry and Judaism in the nineteenth century; Religion as a uniting and dividing force in modern Jewish history; Judaism and Christianity against the background of modern secularism; The influence of religion and society on each other at the time of the emancipation; the German-Jewish utopia of social emancipation; Emancipation and Jewish studies

Part II. Self-Emancipation: The Jewish national movement; The forerunners of Zionism; Situating Zionism in contemporary Jewish history; Zionism and Jewish identity; Zionism versus anti-semitism; Israel and the Messiah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 201166

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Katz, Jacob, 1904-1998. Jewish emancipation and self-emancipation.

ISBN:

0827602618

9780827602618

OCLC:

13008461