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THE JEWS OF GEORGIAN ENGLAND, 1714-1830
TRADITION AND CHANGE IN A LIBERAL SOCIETY |
| By: |
Todd M. Endelman, Todd M. Endelman |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
047208609X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472086092 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 June, 1999 |
| Series: |
Ann Arbor Paperbacks |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
An account of how Jews in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England adapted to new circumstances and conditions in order to immerse their culture into a pluralistic state and society. The book also incorporates a consideration of the active role of poor Jews in this process. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Joseph Salvador--who rapidly adopted the gentlemanly style of life of the landed class and adjusted their religious practices to harmonize with the standards of upper-class Englishmen. Similarly, the Jewish poor--peddlers, hawkers, and old-clothes men--took easily to many patterns of lower-class life, including crime, street violence, sexual promiscuity, and coarse entertainment.An impressive marshaling of fact and analysis, The Jews of Georgian England serves to illuminate a significant aspect of the Jewish passage to modernity."Contributes to English as well as Jewish history. . . . Every reader will learn something new about the statistics, setting or mores of Jewish life in the eighteenth century. . . ." --American Historical ReviewTodd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan. He is also the author of Comparing Jewish Societies, Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, and Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945. |
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13 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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