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Title Assimilation and community : the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. Assimilation and the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography? Jonathan Frankel -- 2. Jewish emancipationists in Victorian England: self-imposed limits to assimilation Israel Finestein -- 3. German Jews in Victorian England: a study in drift and defection Todd M. Endelman -- 4. Israelite and Jew: how did nineteenth-century French Jews understand assimilation? Phyllis Cohen Albert -- 5. The social contexts of assimilation: village Jews and city Jews in Alsace Paula E. Hyman -- 6. Nostalgia and 'return to the ghetto': a cultural phenomenon in Western and Central Europe Richard I. Cohen -- 7. Jewry in the modern period: the role of the 'rising class' in the politicization of Jews in Europe Michael Graetz -- 8. The impact of emancipation on German Jewry: a reconsideration David Sorkin -- 9. Gender and Jewish history in Imperial Germany Marion A. Kaplan -- 10. Jewish assimilation in Habsburg Vienna Marsha L. Rozenblit -- 11. The social vision of Bohemian Jews: intellectuals and community in the 1840s Hillel Kieval -- 12. The entrance of Jews into Hungarian society in Vorma;rz: the case of the 'casinos' Michael K. Silber -- 13. Modernity without emancipation or assimilation? the case of Russian Jewry Eli Lederhendler -- 14. Ahad Ha'am and the politics of assimilation Steven J. Zipperstein -- Index
Notes Includes papers presented at a conference held at University College London, June 1985, organized jointly by the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College and by the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe -- Congresses.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe.
Jews -- Emancipation -- Congresses.
Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe -- Congresses.
Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe.
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103353
Europe -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103329
Author Frankel, Jonathan.
Zipperstein, Steven J., 1950-
Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)
LC no. 90015015
ISBN 0521402840 (hardcover)