This article has been peer reviewed through the journal's standard double blind peer-review proce... more This article has been peer reviewed through the journal's standard double blind peer-review process, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review.
... to be. One defender of Roth suggests that these historians resemble the four York-shiremen in... more ... to be. One defender of Roth suggests that these historians resemble the four York-shiremen in the famous Monty Python skit who attempt to outdo each other in recounting the deprivations they suffered in childhood. Leaving ...
Ajs Review-the Journal of The Association for Jewish Studies, Apr 1, 1982
Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewi... more Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewish integration into European society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, most work has concentrated on public efforts to achieve acceptance and respectability—programs to modernize Jewish education, reform Jewish worship, normalize Jewish occupations, and apply critical standards and methods to Jewish scholarship. In particular, historians have focused their attention on that small group of notables who managed the affairs of the organized Jewish community, that is, those wealthy Jews who everywhere directed the campaign for emancipation and the modernization of Jewish life and later the defense of Judaism in the face of a renewed antisemitism.Needless to say, this group hardly constituted a majority of the community in any locality and in many places probably not even a majority of the Jewish haute bourgeoisie. Yet many of these well-to-do Jews who took no active part in communal affairs were as eager as the communal notables to gain acceptance for themselves outside the Jewish community. Indeed, in most cases their ties to Judaism and the Jewish community were weaker; conversely, their desire for integration into non-Jewish spheres usually stronger.
The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequentl... more The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequently downplayed by historians and others until very recently. The essays in this volume provide a new perspective, stressing the importance of Disraeli’s Jewishness in the construction of his personality, ideology and politics as well as in responses to him. This collection is an important addition not only to the understanding of Disraeli but also to the workings of race relations in Liberal Victorian Britain.
... journal, Emmanuel Ringelblum wrote that a hundred baptized Jews served in prominent positions... more ... journal, Emmanuel Ringelblum wrote that a hundred baptized Jews served in prominent positions in the police force, and he recorded a then-current saying: 'You want a job in the Judenrat?Convert!"2 Converts also benefited from the assistance of the Catholic charity Caritas ...
... eyes. Conversion and intermarriage are thinning the ranks of Jews in every direction, and the... more ... eyes. Conversion and intermarriage are thinning the ranks of Jews in every direction, and the loss is the heaviest to bear, in that the great decrease in the Jewish birth-rate 196 Page 3. The Legitimization of the Diaspora makes ...
This chapter looks at Marcel Proust's epic, a multi-volume novel titled In Search of Lost Tim... more This chapter looks at Marcel Proust's epic, a multi-volume novel titled In Search of Lost Time, where a distinguished member of the Jockey Club named Charles Swann is regarded as a Jew before the Dreyfus affair erupted and heightened the Jew-consciousness. It explains why Marcel and others in the aristocratic world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain regarded Swann as a Jew, who saw himself in a similar light towards the end of his life. It also explores why the lines demarcating Jews from Christians became blurred between the French Revolution and the Second World War and how this blurring affected Jews who had converted to Christianity. The chapter refers to Jews in medieval and early modern Europe, with the exception of Iberian Conversos, who were not troubled by issues of collective identity. It recounts how Jews exchanged one well-defined legal and cultural status for another when they rejected Judaism and became Christians.
This chapter refers to the emancipation and enlightenment that failed to uproot hoary views about... more This chapter refers to the emancipation and enlightenment that failed to uproot hoary views about Jewish otherness nor erase the stigma of Jewishness in an era of unconditional social acceptance. It talks about how Jews became 'less Jewish' when antisemitism persisted and, in some contexts, worsened. It also explains how the enlightenment and scientific and industrial revolutions undermined the doctrinal foundations of Christianity, which initiated the tradition of viewing Jews as demonic outsiders and did not eliminate the stigma attached to Jewishness. The chapter explores the perception that Jews were different in kind from non-Jews that was too rooted in Western culture and sentiment to disappear when the religious doctrines that had engendered it in the first place weakened. It then describes Jews in liberal states like Britain, France, and the United States, who found being Jewish problematic to one degree or another.
This article has been peer reviewed through the journal's standard double blind peer-review proce... more This article has been peer reviewed through the journal's standard double blind peer-review process, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review.
... to be. One defender of Roth suggests that these historians resemble the four York-shiremen in... more ... to be. One defender of Roth suggests that these historians resemble the four York-shiremen in the famous Monty Python skit who attempt to outdo each other in recounting the deprivations they suffered in childhood. Leaving ...
Ajs Review-the Journal of The Association for Jewish Studies, Apr 1, 1982
Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewi... more Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewish integration into European society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, most work has concentrated on public efforts to achieve acceptance and respectability—programs to modernize Jewish education, reform Jewish worship, normalize Jewish occupations, and apply critical standards and methods to Jewish scholarship. In particular, historians have focused their attention on that small group of notables who managed the affairs of the organized Jewish community, that is, those wealthy Jews who everywhere directed the campaign for emancipation and the modernization of Jewish life and later the defense of Judaism in the face of a renewed antisemitism.Needless to say, this group hardly constituted a majority of the community in any locality and in many places probably not even a majority of the Jewish haute bourgeoisie. Yet many of these well-to-do Jews who took no active part in communal affairs were as eager as the communal notables to gain acceptance for themselves outside the Jewish community. Indeed, in most cases their ties to Judaism and the Jewish community were weaker; conversely, their desire for integration into non-Jewish spheres usually stronger.
The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequentl... more The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequently downplayed by historians and others until very recently. The essays in this volume provide a new perspective, stressing the importance of Disraeli’s Jewishness in the construction of his personality, ideology and politics as well as in responses to him. This collection is an important addition not only to the understanding of Disraeli but also to the workings of race relations in Liberal Victorian Britain.
... journal, Emmanuel Ringelblum wrote that a hundred baptized Jews served in prominent positions... more ... journal, Emmanuel Ringelblum wrote that a hundred baptized Jews served in prominent positions in the police force, and he recorded a then-current saying: 'You want a job in the Judenrat?Convert!"2 Converts also benefited from the assistance of the Catholic charity Caritas ...
... eyes. Conversion and intermarriage are thinning the ranks of Jews in every direction, and the... more ... eyes. Conversion and intermarriage are thinning the ranks of Jews in every direction, and the loss is the heaviest to bear, in that the great decrease in the Jewish birth-rate 196 Page 3. The Legitimization of the Diaspora makes ...
This chapter looks at Marcel Proust's epic, a multi-volume novel titled In Search of Lost Tim... more This chapter looks at Marcel Proust's epic, a multi-volume novel titled In Search of Lost Time, where a distinguished member of the Jockey Club named Charles Swann is regarded as a Jew before the Dreyfus affair erupted and heightened the Jew-consciousness. It explains why Marcel and others in the aristocratic world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain regarded Swann as a Jew, who saw himself in a similar light towards the end of his life. It also explores why the lines demarcating Jews from Christians became blurred between the French Revolution and the Second World War and how this blurring affected Jews who had converted to Christianity. The chapter refers to Jews in medieval and early modern Europe, with the exception of Iberian Conversos, who were not troubled by issues of collective identity. It recounts how Jews exchanged one well-defined legal and cultural status for another when they rejected Judaism and became Christians.
This chapter refers to the emancipation and enlightenment that failed to uproot hoary views about... more This chapter refers to the emancipation and enlightenment that failed to uproot hoary views about Jewish otherness nor erase the stigma of Jewishness in an era of unconditional social acceptance. It talks about how Jews became 'less Jewish' when antisemitism persisted and, in some contexts, worsened. It also explains how the enlightenment and scientific and industrial revolutions undermined the doctrinal foundations of Christianity, which initiated the tradition of viewing Jews as demonic outsiders and did not eliminate the stigma attached to Jewishness. The chapter explores the perception that Jews were different in kind from non-Jews that was too rooted in Western culture and sentiment to disappear when the religious doctrines that had engendered it in the first place weakened. It then describes Jews in liberal states like Britain, France, and the United States, who found being Jewish problematic to one degree or another.
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