The Modernization Of French Jewry
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The Modernization Of French Jewry
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Author : Phyllis Cohen Albert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-06
The Modernization Of French Jewry written by Phyllis Cohen Albert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06 with categories.
One of the richest sources of information on how Jews of the period between Napoleon and Dreyfus lived.
The Modernization Of French Jewry
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Author : Phyllis Cohen Albert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Modernization Of French Jewry written by Phyllis Cohen Albert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with France categories.
A social and institutional study of nineteenth-century French Jewry during the neglected period between Napoleon and Dreyfus, this is also the first comprehensive account of the Jewish consistory- the largest and most important institution of the French Jewish community. The author first details the demographic and economic position of the Jews, official an unofficial institutions, competing ideologies, internal politics, and social development. She then discusses the interplay between rabbinic and lay power in the community and analyzes the social status and educational and economic background of recruits both to the rabbinate and to the lay leadership. The consistory's method of operation, its achievements, and its ideological stance on controversial issues are examined. The book utilizes material hitherto untapped, to produce a comprehensive account of a major aspect of Jewish social history.
Rites And Passages
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Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Rites And Passages written by Jay R. Berkovitz and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Religion categories.
In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatment of Jewish emancipation can ignore the cultural history of the Jews during the ancien régime. It was during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that several lasting paradigms emerged within the Jewish community—including the distinction between rural and urban communities, the formation of a strong lay leadership, heightened divisions between popular and elite religion, and the strain between local and regional identities. Each of these developments reflected the growing tension between tradition and modernity before the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. Rites and Passages emphasizes the resilience of religious tradition during periods of social and political turbulence. Viewing French Jewish history through the lens of ritual, Berkovitz describes the struggles of the French Jewish minority to maintain its cultural distinctiveness while also participating in the larger social and economic matrix. In the ancien régime, ritual systems were a formative element in the traditional worldview and served as a crucial repository of memories and values. After the Revolution, ritual signaled changes in the way Jews related to the state, French society, and French culture. In the cities especially, ritual assumed a performative function that dramatized the epoch-making changes of the day. The terms and concepts of the Jewish religious tradition thus remained central to the discourse of modernization and played a powerful role in helping French Jews interpret the diverse meanings and implications of emancipation. Introducing new and previously unused primary sources, Rites and Passages offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity.
The Shaping Of Jewish Identity In Nineteenth Century France
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Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
The Shaping Of Jewish Identity In Nineteenth Century France written by Jay R. Berkovitz and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Social Science categories.
Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of 1789 came the collapse of the social, political, and philosophical foundations of exclusiveness, forcing French society and the Jews to come to terms with the meaning of emancipation. Over time, the enormous challenge that emancipation posed for traditional Jewish beliefs became evident. In the 1830s, a more comprehensive ideology of regeneration emerged through the efforts of younger Jewish scholars and intellectuals. A response to the social and religious implications of emancipation, it was characterized by the demand for the elimination of rituals that violated the French conceptions of civilization and social integration; a drive for greater administrative centralization; and the quest for inter-communal and ethnic unity. In its various elements, regeneration formed a distinct ideology of emancipation that was designed to mediate Jewish interaction with French society and culture. Jay Berkovitz reveals the complexities inherent in the processes of emancipation and modernization, focusing on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity. All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.
French Jewry And The Ideology Of Regeneration To 1848
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Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
French Jewry And The Ideology Of Regeneration To 1848 written by Jay R. Berkovitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
This study is an investigation of French Jewry in the generations immediately following the Emanciaption. Offers the student of history and important case study on the process of modernization.
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
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Author : Zvi Jonathan Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2009
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea written by Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Church and state categories.
Durkheim And The Jews Of France
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Author : Ivan Strenski
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Durkheim And The Jews Of France written by Ivan Strenski and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Ivan Strenski debunks the common notion that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in Durkheim's work. Seeking the Durkheim inside the real world of Jews in France rather than the imagined Jewishness inside Durkheim himself, Strenski adopts a Durkheimian approach to understanding Durkheim's thought. In so doing he shows for the first time that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion) took form in relation to the Jewish intellectual life of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Strenski begins each chapter by weighing particular claims (some anti-Semitic, some not) for the Jewishness of Durkheim's work. In each case Strenski overturns the claim while showing that it can nonetheless open up a fruitful inquiry into the relation of Durkheim to French Jewry. For example, Strenski shows that Durkheim's celebration of ritual had no innately Jewish source but derived crucially from work on Hinduism by the Jewish Indologist Sylvain Lévi, whose influence on Durkheim and his followers has never before been acknowledged.
The Jews Of Modern France
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Author : Zvi Jonathan Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-01
The Jews Of Modern France written by Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Religion categories.
The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities focuses on the shifting boundaries between inner-directed and outer-directed Jewish concerns, behaviors and attitudes in France over the course of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Saharan Jews And The Fate Of French Algeria
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Author : Sarah Abrevaya Stein
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-05-06
Saharan Jews And The Fate Of French Algeria written by Sarah Abrevaya Stein and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with History categories.
The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria’s south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era. Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for centuries. She paints an intriguing historical picture—of an ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French Saharan one, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations, which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
The Jews Of Modern France
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Author : Paula E. Hyman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
The Jews Of Modern France written by Paula E. Hyman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Religion categories.
The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most vital Jewish population in western and central Europe. Paula Hyman looks closely at the period that began when France's Jews were offered citizenship during the Revolution. She shows how they and succeeding generations embraced the opportunities of integration and acculturation, redefined their identities, adapted their Judaism to the pragmatic and ideological demands of the time, and participated fully in French culture and politics. Within this same period, Jews in France fell victim to a secular political antisemitism that mocked the gains of emancipation, culminating first in the Dreyfus Affair and later in the murder of one-fourth of them in the Holocaust. Yet up to the present day, through successive waves of immigration, Jews have asserted the compatibility of their French identity with various versions of Jewish particularity, including Zionism. This remarkable view in microcosm of the modern Jewish experience will interest general readers and scholars alike.