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Jews at the Crossroads - Tradition and Accommodation During the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility (Hardcover)
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Jews at the Crossroads - Tradition and Accommodation During the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility (Hardcover)
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Examines the social and political history of the Jews of
Miskolc-the third largest Jewish community in Hungary-and presents
the wider transformation of Jewish identity during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. It explores the emergence of a moderate,
accommodating form of traditional Judaism that combined elements of
tradition and innovation, thereby creating an alternative to
Orthodox and Neolog Judaism. This form of traditional Judaism
reconciled the demands of religious tradition with the expectations
of Magyarization and citizenship, thus allowing traditional Jews to
be patriotic Magyars. By focusing on Hungary, this book seeks to
correct a trend in modern Jewish historiography that views Habsburg
Jewish History as an extension of German Jewish History, most
notably with regard to emancipation and enlightenment. Rather than
trying to fit Hungarian Jewry into a conventional Germano-centric
taxonomy, this work places Hungarian Jews in the distinct contexts
of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Danube Basin, positing a more
seamless nexus between the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This
nexus was rooted in a series of political experiments by Habsburg
sovereigns and Hungarian noblemen that culminated in civic
equality, and in the gradual expansion of traditional Judaism to
meet the challenges of the age.
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