Jewish emancipation : a history across five centuries / David Sorkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorkin, David, Author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Emancipation.

Jews.

Jews--Political and social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 511 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps

Edition:

Hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world. Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, the book tells the ongoing story of how Jews have gained, kept, lost, and recovered rights in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Israel.Emancipation, Sorkin shows, was not a one-time or linear event that began with the Enlightenment or French Revolution and culminated with Jews' acquisition of rights in Central Europe in 1867-71 or Russia in 1917. Rather, emancipation was and is a complex, multidirectional, and ambiguous process characterized by deflections and reversals, defeats and successes, triumphs and tragedies. For example, American Jews mobilized twice for emancipation: in the nineteenth century for political rights and in the twentieth for lost civil rights. Similarly, Israel itself has struggled from the start to institute equality among its heterogeneous citizens.By telling the story of this foundational but neglected event, Jewish Emancipation reveals the lost contours of Jewish history over the past half millennium.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction. Ambiguous and Interminable Emancipation

Part I. The Three Regions Emerge

Part II. The Two Legislative Models

Part III. The Three Regions in the Nineteenth Century

Part IV. The Fourth Region

Part V. Twentieth-Century Tribulations

Conclusion. Ten Theses on Emancipation

Acknowledgments

Notes

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781787857841

1787857840

9780691189673

0691189676

OCLC:

1113178406