Paths of Emancipation : Jews, States, and Citizenship.

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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 e.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Emancipation and the Liberal Offer / Birnbaum, Pierre / Katznelson, Ira -- Two. Dutch Jews in a Segmented Society / Daalder, Hans -- Three. From "Schutzjuden" to "Deutsche Staatsburger Judischen Glaubens": The Long and Bumpy Road of Jewish Emancipation in Germany / Mosse, Werner E. -- Four. Between Social and Political Assimilation: Remarks on the History of Jews in France / Birnbaum, Pierre -- Five. English Jews or Jews of the English Persuasion? Reflections on the Emancipation of Anglo-Jewry / Alderman, Geoffrey -- Six. Between Separation and Disappearance: Jews on the Margins of American Liberalism / Katznelson, Ira -- Seven. The Emancipation of Jews in Italy / Segre, Dan V. -- Eight. From Millet to Minority: Turkish Jewry / Rodrigue, Avon -- Nine. Russian Jewry, The Russian State, and the Dynamics of Jewish Emancipation / Stanislawski, Michael -- Contributors -- Index

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