Broadening Jewish history : towards a social history of ordinary Jews / Todd M. Endelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endelman, Todd M.

Series:

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--History--1789-1945.

Jews.

Jews--Great Britain--History.

Social conditions.

History.

Great Britain.

Jews--Germany--History.

Germany.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Jews--Europe--Social conditions.

Christian converts from Judaism.

Jews--Europe--Identity--History.

Europe.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881.

Disraeli, Benjamin.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 379 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011.

Contents:

Making Jews modern: Jewish self-identification and West European categories of belonging

The legitimization of the diaspora experience

The Englishness of Jewish modernity in England

Welcoming ex-Jews into the Jewish historiographical fold

The social and political context of conversion in Germany and England: 1870-1914

Jewish self-hatred in Germany and England

German Jews in Victorian England

The chequered career of 'Jew' King

The emergence of Disraeli's Jewishness

Benjamin Disraeli and the myth of Sephardi superiority

The impact of the converso experience on English Sephardim

The Frankaus of London

Jewish converts in nineteenth-century Warsaw

Memories of Jewishness.

Notes:

Collection of previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781904113010

190411301X

OCLC:

149314482

Publisher Number:

99942740846