Jewish emancipation : a history across five centuries / David Sorkin.
Sorkin, David Jan, author.
2019
DS147 .S66 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Jewish emancipation : a history across five centuries / David Sorkin.
Author Sorkin, David Jan, author.
ISBN 0691164940 (hardcover)
9780691164946 (hardcover)
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description x, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number DS147 .S66 2019
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Ambiguous and interminable emancipation
Part 1 The three regions emerge. Merchant colonies ; Burgher estate ; Juridical equality
Part 2 The two legislative models. Bureaucrat, laboratory, emperor ; Civil rights in Western Europe ; Partition and parity ; Revolution ; War ; Sanhedrin ; Partitions
Part 3 The three regions in the nineteenth century. Restoration ; Central Europe, 1815-1847 ; Revolution ; Central Europe, 1850-1871 ; Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, I ; Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, II ; Western Europe ; The Atlantic world ; Mass society, I ; Mass society, II
Part 4 The fourth region. Ottoman Empire and Danubian Provinces
Part 5 Twentieth-century tribulations. Minority rights ; Repudiation ; Reinstatement ; Maghreb and Mashreq ; Israel ; United States ; Conclusion: ten theses on emancipation.

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