Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish
citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish
communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships
with the institutions of the Christian West. In this volume, one of
the first to offer a comparative overview of the entry of Jews into
state and society, eight leading historians analyze the course of
emancipation in Holland, Germany, France, England, the United
States, and Italy as well as in Turkey and Russia. The goal is to
produce a systematic study of the highly diverse paths to
emancipation and to explore their different impacts on Jewish
identity, dispositions, and patterns of collective action.
Jewish emancipation concerned itself primarily with issues of
state and citizenship. Would the liberal and republican values of
the Enlightenment guide governments in establishing the terms of
Jewish citizenship? How would states react to Jews seeking to
become citizens and to remain meaningfully Jewish? The authors
examine these issues through discussions of the entry of Jews into
the military, the judicial system, business, and academic and
professional careers, for example, and through discussions of their
assertive political activity.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Geoffrey
Alderman, Hans Daalder, Werner E. Mosse, Aron Rodrigue, Dan V.
Segre, and Michael Stanislawski.
Originally published in 1995.
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