Jewish Emancipation (eBook)

A History across Five Centuries

David Sorkin (Autor)

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2019
528 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18967-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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, Jewish Emancipation 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.

Autor

David Sorkin is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of History at Yale University. His books include The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Princeton), Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, and The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illus. 11 maps
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abdul Hamid II • abolitionism • Agricultural cooperative • Algeria • American Civil Liberties Union • American Jewish Congress • Antisemitism • Arab citizens of Israel • arabs • architectural firm • Aryanization (Nazism) • Austria-Hungary • Auto-Emancipation • Autonomous communities of Spain • Basic Law • Bedouin • Benito Mussolini • blood libel • Bourbon Restoration • Bourgeoisie • brewery • British subject • bureaucrat • Capital of Germany • Catholic Church • Catholic Emancipation • Central Europe • Certification • chaim weizmann • Chief Rabbi • Christian state • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • Civil Code • civil defense • civil marriage • civil service • Civil Society • Client state • Communism in Russia • Community council • confessional state • congregational church • Congress of Berlin • Congress Poland • Consciousness • Conscription • consecration • Consummation • Corruption • Counter-Enlightenment • Court clerk • court Jew • critique • cultural center • David Ben-Gurion • Decree • Demography • Deportation • Deposit account • Devotio • Dhimmi • Dialect • Dissenter • Doctrine • dual monarchy • Duchy of Warsaw • Eastern Europe • East Germany • edict • Emigration • Employment • Equality before the law • Europe • Exclusion • Frankfurt Parliament • French nationality law • Galician Jews • Galicia (Spain) • German Confederation • Government bond • Government in Exile • Great Power • Guarantee (international law) • Historical materialism • historical thinking • holocaust victims • Holy Roman Empire • honorific • hostility • huguenot • Immigration • Industry • Infamous Decree • Institution • insurance policy • internment • irredentism • Israel • israelites • Italian Fascism • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish emancipation • Jewish History • Jewish quota • Jews • joseph stalin • Judaism • Jurisdiction • Jus sanguinis • Jus soli • Khapper • Labour movement • Lajos Kossuth • land grant • Law of Return • Law School • lawyer • Lecture • Legal History • Legislation • Likud • Literacy test • Lithuania • local government • Looted Art • Maghreb • Manuscript • March of the Living • market town • marriage license • Mass murder • mexicans • middle class • Military Service • Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (France) • minority group • Minority rights • Mizrahi Jews • Modernity • Muslims (nationality) • Napoleon • napoleonic code • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Nationality • nation state • Naturalization • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Neglect • New Laws • Nobility • Norman O. Brown • numerus clausus • obstacle • Occident (movement) • October Revolution • of education • On the Jewish Question • Ottoman Empire • Ottoman law • Ownership • oxymoron • Pale of Settlement • Papal States • Partitions of Poland • Payment • peasant • Persecution • Pioneering (Bahá'í) • Pogrom • Poland • Poles • Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth • Political History • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Pope Pius IX • Poverty • Precedent • Prejudice • Prerogative • Presentism (literary and historical analysis) • Promulgation • Protestantism • prussia • Prussian House of Representatives • Public sphere • purchasing • Rabbi • Racial antisemitism • racial integration • Racism • Reign (online game) • residence • Restitution • Revier • Run-on sentence • Russian Civil War • Russian Empire • Russification • Sabbath in Christianity • salary • saving • Sephardi Jews • Sheldon Wolin • Shomer • Shtetl • Social Psychology • Solecism • southern France • Sovietization • States of Germany • Statute • structural inequality • Sturmabteilung • Subsidy • Succession of states • Suffrage • Synagogue • Szlachta • Tax • Teleology • Toleration • Torture • Treaty • Tsarist autocracy • usury • Vichy France • Volk (German word) • Western Europe • World Jewish Congress • World War I • World War II • Writing • Writing Process • Yiddish • YIVO • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18967-6 / 0691189676
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18967-3 / 9780691189673