Toward Modernity: The European Jewish Model

ISBN-13: 9781138517387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str.

Jacob Katz

Opis

Toward Modernity compares modernization in Germany with its counterparts in other countries to see if the German-Jewish development had any influence on what transpired elsewhere. The authors explore the history of Jewish modernization in Russia, Galicia, Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Holland, France, England, Italy, and the United States

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Immanent Factors and External Influences in the Development of the Haskalah Movement in Russia 2. The Heavenly City of Germany and Absolutism a la Mode d'Autriche: The Rise of the Haskalah in Galicia 3. The Modernization of Viennese Jewry: The Impact of German Culture in a Multi-Ethnic State 4. Caution's Progress: The Modernization of Jewish Life in Prague, 1780-1830 5. The Historical Experience of German Jewry and Its Impact on the Haskalah and Reform in Hungary 6. The History of an Estrangement between Two Jewish Communities: German and French Jewry during the Nineteenth Century 7. The Impact of German-Jewish Modernization on Dutch Jewry 8. Trieste and Berlin: The Italian Role in the Cultural Politics of the Haskalah 9. The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England 10. German-Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

O autorze

Jacob Katz