The contributors to this volume throw light on one of the
central problems of modern Jewish historiography: How has Jewry and
Judaism survived the crisis of the breakup of Jewish traditional
society, the transition from the dosed, ghetto existence into a
more or less open environment? The process of development, starting
in eighteenth-century Germany, gradually encompassed the entire
world of European Jewish experience.
"Toward Modernity "compares modernization in Germany with its
counterparts in other countries to see if the German-Jewish
development had any influence on what transpired elsewhere. The
authors explore the history of Jewish modernization in Russia,
Galicia, Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Holland, France, England, Italy,
and the United States. Topics covered include: the political and
social authority of Jewish community institutions; external
impediments and internal inhibitions for Jews to be absorbed by the
dominant culture; the relationship of the state to the Jewish
community; educational and religious reform; the influence of the
rational scientific worldview; and the possibility of inclusion in
the emerging middle classes.
Contents: Jacob Katz, "Introduction"; Emanuel Etkes, "Immanent
Factors and External Influences in the Development of the Haskala
Movement in Russia"; Israel Bartal, '"The Heavenly City of Germany'
and Absolutism a la Mode D'Autriche: The Rise of the Haskala in
Galicia"; Robert S. Wistrich, "The Modernization of Viennese Jewry:
The Impact of German Culture in a Multiethnic State"; Hillel J.
Kieval, "Caution's Progress: The Modernization of Jewish Life in
Prague, 1780-1830"; Michael Silber, "The German Jewish Experience
and Its Impact on Hungarian Jewry, 1780-1870"; Michael Graetz, "The
History of an Estrangement between Two Jewish Communities: German
and French Jewry during the Nineteenth Century"; Joseph Michman,
"The Impact of German-Jewish Modernization on Dutch Jewry"; Lois C.
Dubin, "Trieste and Berlin: The Italian Role in the Cultural
Politics of the Haskalah"; Todd M. Endelman, "The Englishness of
Jewish Modernity in England"; Michael A. Meyer, "German Jewish
Identity in Nineteenth Century America."
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