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Book SynopsisThroughout 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 l
Trade Review"The terrain covered by Paths of Emancipation is vast. The editorial agenda required that 'emancipation' be understood by the contributors in its broadest sense, and that it be set in the context of social and political developments within each state... The result of such painstaking contextualization is a book that is stronger on particulars than it is on more general comparative insights. But this does not detract from the excellence of the individual contributions, or from the historiographical value of the project."--Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsPreface1Emancipation and the Liberal Offer32Dutch Jews in a Segmented Society373From "Schutzjuden" to "Deutsche Staatsburger Judischen Glaubens": The Long and Bumpy Road of Jewish Emancipation in Germany594Between Social and Political Assimilation: Remarks on the History of Jews in France945English Jews or Jews of the English Persuasion? Reflections on the Emancipation of Anglo-Jewry1286Between Separation and Disappearance: Jews on the Margins of American Liberalism1577The Emancipation of Jews in Italy2068From Millet to Minority: Turkish Jewry2389Russian Jewry, the Russian State, and the Dynamics of Jewish Emancipation262List of Contributors285Index287
