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Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models
Contributor(s): Brenner, Michael (Editor), Caron, Vicki (Editor), Kaufmann, Uri R. (Editor)
ISBN: 316148018X     ISBN-13: 9783161480188
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
OUR PRICE:   $86.13  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Jewish - General
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
- History | Holocaust
Dewey: 940.531
LCCN: 2003504009
Series: Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck
Physical Information: 245 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Topical - Holocaust
 
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Publisher Description:
A group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms for understanding the processes of Jewish emancipation and acculturation in Western and Central Europe. In the French case, emancipation was achieved during the French Revolution, and it remained in place until 1940, when the Vichy regime came to power. In Germany, emancipation was a far more gradual and piecemeal process, and even after it was achieved in 1871, popular and governmental antisemitism persisted. The essays in this volume, while buttressing many traditional assumptions regarding these two paths of emancipation, simultaneously challenge many others, and thus force us to reconsider the larger processes of Jewish integration and acculturation.