Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History 1400866383, 9781400866380

Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9781400866380

Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold—by becoming Christian

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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self 3110737221, 9783110737226

Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story o

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Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-century Germany 9780814338001, 0814338003

A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.

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Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-century Germany 9780814338001, 0814338003

A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.

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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women 0295974257, 9780295974255, 0295974265, 9780295806822

Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted 'the Jews' as though

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Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination 9780804781718

Arguing that the Sephardic experience played a much more vital role in the development of modern nationalism and literar

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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History 9781785335549

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German his

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The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia (Studies in Jewish History) [1 ed.] 0195058917, 9780195058918

It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish

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Pogroms: anti-Jewish violence in modern Russian history 3999902292

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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self 9783110731965, 9783110737226, 9783111270753

This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family a

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