Cologne
Author : Shulamith Sharon Magnus
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Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Shulamith Sharon Magnus
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Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Shulamit S. Magnus
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804726443
This work seeks to understand how, in nineteenth-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Unlike most other works on German Jewish emancipation, this book examines how so fundamental and dramatic a transformation in the relation of Jews and non-Jews was experienced by the people who lived it, how economic, social, political, and ideological forces interacted to bring about change, and how accommodation actually occurred. The book focuses on Cologne, the most populous and economically powerful city in the Rhineland. Jews, excluded since 1424, returned under French Revolutionary rule, but Napoleonic legislation in 1808 compromised their equality and gave city elders an opportunity to reassert Cologne's historic control when the territory passed to Prussia in 1814. A long struggle between municipal and state authorities ensued, with the city hostile to Jewish rights but ultimately losing its bid to exercise local sovereignty over the Jews. The 1840s saw the advent of the railway age, and Cologne's economic and political climate was transformed. The city soon became the center for Rhenish liberal advocacy of Jewish rights, led by regional entrepreneurs in association with Jewish bankers. The author demonstrates, however, that Jewish emancipation was not simply conferred on Jews from above or engineered by financial mavericks in the community. Rather, it occurred as part of a broad societal transformation and as the result of the efforts and behavior of ordinary Jews, whose voices the author records. The book reveals how such Jews responded to the lure of equality and the pressures of continued discrimination in their business and private lives, and shows how their response fostered a new, positive perception of Jews as honorable people deserving of civic inclusion. It also illustrates how Jews, enjoying unprecedented success and acceptance, fought not only for individual rights but for the right of organized Judaism to achieve a secure place in society.
Author : Shulamith S. Magnus
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Page : 659 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Shulamit S. Magnus
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Page : 716 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Cologne (Germany)
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Author : Ronald L. Dotterer
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Jews, American
ISBN : 9780945636137
Essays on the Polish shtetl, as well as on Jewish communities in Alsace, Cologne, Vienna, London, Boro Park (Brooklyn, N.Y.), New York City, and Mea Shearim and Geula (Jerusalem).
Author : David Sorkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0691205256
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world. Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, Jewish Emancipation tells the ongoing story of how Jews have gained, kept, lost, and recovered rights in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Israel. Emancipation, Sorkin shows, was not a one-time or linear event that began with the Enlightenment or French Revolution and culminated with Jews' acquisition of rights in Central Europe in 1867–71 or Russia in 1917. Rather, emancipation was and is a complex, multidirectional, and ambiguous process characterized by deflections and reversals, defeats and successes, triumphs and tragedies. For example, American Jews mobilized twice for emancipation: in the nineteenth century for political rights, and in the twentieth for lost civil rights. Similarly, Israel itself has struggled from the start to institute equality among its heterogeneous citizens. By telling the story of this foundational but neglected event, Jewish Emancipation reveals the lost contours of Jewish history over the past half millennium.
Author : D. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0230100139
This book examines texts and materials, ranging from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern Europe, related to the Maccabean martyrs. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski demonstrates that Christian thinkers constructed memories of the Maccabean martyrs that simultaneously appropriated Jewish traditions and obscured the Jewish origins of Christianity.
Author : Brian E. Vick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674009110
He examines debates over fundamental issues that included citizenship qualifications, minority liguistic rights, Jewish emancipation, and territorial disputes, and offers valuable insights into nineteenth-century liberal opinion on the Jewish Question, language policy, and ideas of race."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1139471252
This book opens the debate about German history in the long term – about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence - that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to destruction. The result is a series of innovative reflections on the crystallization of nationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how the nineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured the twentieth-century genocidal imagination.
Author : Gabriela Signori
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004211055
The history of influence of the old testamentary Maccabees is the focus of the essays collected in this book, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation.