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The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace - Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace - Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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European Jews achieved civil emancipation during the nineteenth
century, becoming equal citizens with all the rights and
responsibilities of their Gentile compatriots. This book explores
for the first time the impact of this emancipation on a traditional
Jewish population largely untouched by secular culture. Focusing on
the Jews of Alsace, Paula E. Hyman explores their patterns of
acculturation and integration in both countryside and city,
analyzing the political, social, and economic factors that not only
reshaped their behavior and self-understanding but also sustained
their traditional Jewish practice. Drawing on governmental sources,
literature, memoirs, and communal records, Hyman relates the
experiences of ordinary Jews-the cattle dealers, peddlers, and
shopkeepers who lived in the villages and small towns of Alsace.
She finds that these Jews resisted new outlooks and new spheres of
activity, and that their transformation was far slower and more
uneven than the rapid acculturation of Jewish urban elites
discussed by previous historians. Hyman describes the Alsatian
Jews' emergence from cultural and social isolation, the impact of
migration and urbanization, their drift from religious orthodoxy,
and the alliance of their community leaders with French
authorities. Since European Jews were a largely rural population
until after mid-century, Hyman's social history of a typical
village society has important implications for understanding the
development of Jewish modernity throughout Europe
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