Author: Charles Herbert Lewis EmanuelPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A Century and a Half of Jewish History
Author: Charles Herbert Lewis EmanuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
Author: Todd M. EndelmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830
Author: Todd M. EndelmanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202356X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In The Jews of Georgian England, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues that the modernization of European Jewry encompassed far more than an intellectual revolution. His study recounts the rise of the Anglo-Jewish elite--great commercial and financial magnates such as the Goldsmids, the Franks, Samson Gideon, and Joseph Salvador--who rapidly adopted the gentlemanly style of life of the landed class and adjusted their religious practices to harmonize with the standards of upper-class Englishmen. Similarly, the Jewish poor--peddlers, hawkers, and old-clothes men--took easily to many patterns of lower-class life, including crime, street violence, sexual promiscuity, and coarse entertainment. An impressive marshaling of fact and analysis, The Jews of Georgian England serves to illuminate a significant aspect of the Jewish passage to modernity. "Contributes to English as well as Jewish history. . . . Every reader will learn something new about the statistics, setting or mores of Jewish life in the eighteenth century. . . ." --American Historical Review Todd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan. He is also the author of Comparing Jewish Societies, Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, and Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945.
Albion and Jerusalem
Author: Michael ClarkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199562342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lionel de Rothschild's hard-fought entry into Parliament in 1858 marked the emancipation of Jews in Britain - the symbolic conclusion of Jews' campaign for equal rights and their inclusion as citizens after centuries of discrimination. Jewish life entered a new phase: the post-emancipation era. But what did this mean for the Jewish community and their interactions with wider society? And how did Britain's state and society react to its newest citizens? Emancipation was ambiguous. Acceptance carried expectations, as well as opportunities. Integrating into British society required changes to traditional Jewish identity, just as it also widened conceptions of Britishness. Many Jews willingly embraced their environment and fashioned a unique Jewish existence: mixing in all levels of society; experiencing economic success; and organising and translating its faith along Anglican grounds. However, unlike many other European Jews, Anglo-Jews stayed loyal to their faith. Conversion and outmarriage remained rare, and connections were maintained with foreign kin. The community was even willing at times to place its Jewish and English identity in conflict, as happened during the 1876-8 Eastern Crisis - which provoked the first episode of modern antisemitism in Britain. The nature of Jewish existence in Britain was unclear and developing in the post-emancipation era. Focusing upon inter-linked case studies of Anglo-Jewry's political activity, internal government, and religious development, Michael Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted the minority in late nineteenth-century Britain. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.
The Sultan’s Jew
Author: Daniel J. SchroeterPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804737777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book examines the Jewish community of Morocco in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the life of a merchant who was the chief intermediary between the Moroccan sultans and Europe .
The Academy and Literature
Author: The Jews in Britain
Author: R. LanghamPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
For nearly a thousand years there has been a Jewish presence in Britain. Today the Jewish community, although numbering less than 300,000 is widely seen as one of the most successful groups in Britain. This unique book describes events in Britain concerning Jews in chronological order, from ancient legend to the present times.
The Drawing of the Mark of Cain
Author: Dik Van ArkelPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 908964041X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
These are big questions, and in The Drawing of the Mark of Cain they are addressed head-on. The author has devoted his entire career as a distinguished social historian to resolving these and similar problems. He has sought his answers through a highly original, consistently analytical process of historical conjecture and refutation. --
The Construction of Minorities
Author: André BurguièrePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472067374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A cross-cultural volume that investigates the question of how social minorities are formed
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