Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish

Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870 (Modern Jewish History)
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Jacob Katz presents the developing interrelationship between Jews and their Gentile environment as a whole, from both Jewish and non-Jewish points of view. If the results of the Jewish emancipation process differed from country to country, the forces effecting the changes were identical -- the upheaval of the French Revolution, the loosening of bonds between church and state, and the ideas of the Enlightenment. It was those humanistic ideas that made impossible the Jews' transition from the ghetto to partial inclusion in society at large and that attracted Jewish intellectuals to the "secular knowledge" of languages, mathematics, philosophy, and the wider world beyond their ancient learning.
Country USA
Brand Syracuse University Press
Manufacturer Syracuse University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber notes, index
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780815605324
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870 (Modern Jewish History)