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Discover the transformative journey of Jewish Emancipation in this groundbreaking book by David Sorkin. This comprehensive history unveils how Jews transitioned to citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world. Spanning from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century, 'Jewish Emancipation' explores the multifaceted struggles that defined Jewish life across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Israel. Sorkin intricately weaves together a narrative that illustrates emancipation not as a singular event but as an intricate process filled with challenges, reversals, and resilience.
Throughout history, the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel have dominated the narrative surrounding Jewish experiences. However, this book reorients that perspective, shining a light on the essential yet often overlooked theme of emancipation. The text chronicles periods of advocacy and opposition, detailing how American Jews fought for political rights in the nineteenth century and civil rights in the twentieth century. It also highlights Israel’s ongoing struggles to achieve equality among its diverse populace.
'Jewish Emancipation' is essential for anyone interested in Jewish history, social justice, and civil rights. This BRAND NEW edition, published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, is available in trade binding with ISBN 9780691164946.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691164946
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
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.
Throughout history, the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel have dominated the narrative surrounding Jewish experiences. However, this book reorients that perspective, shining a light on the essential yet often overlooked theme of emancipation. The text chronicles periods of advocacy and opposition, detailing how American Jews fought for political rights in the nineteenth century and civil rights in the twentieth century. It also highlights Israel’s ongoing struggles to achieve equality among its diverse populace.
'Jewish Emancipation' is essential for anyone interested in Jewish history, social justice, and civil rights. This BRAND NEW edition, published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, is available in trade binding with ISBN 9780691164946.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691164946
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
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.