Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society

Name: Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society
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ISBN: 9780472086092

ISBN-10: 047208609X

ISBN-13: 9780472086092

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Todd M. Endelman

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The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In The Jews of Georgian England, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues that the modernization of European Jewry encompassed far more than an intellectual revolution. His study recounts the rise of the Anglo-Jewish elite--great commercial and financial magnates such as the Goldsmids, the Franks, Samson Gideon, and…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition



The Interwar Background



World War II



The Communists Come to Power



The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism



The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself



A Precarious Stalemate



The Various Endgames



The Postcommunist Decade


Notes


Suggested Readings


Index