Assimilation and Community The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe Frankel

Assimilation and CommunityThe Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Frankel, Steven J. Zipperstein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521526012, 978-0521526012\nSynopsis\nThe early and middle decades of the nineteenth century in Europe [tel] have long been regarded as the major period of assimilation in post-medieval Jewish history. Moreover the established historiography dealing with those years has tended to focus on the processes of accommodation and communal disintegration. However, the historical processes as analysed in this collection of essays emerge as multi- rather than uni-directional, far more variegated and complex than usually described hitherto. Contradictory trends were associated with different localities, levels of development and ideological allegiances. Traditional loyalties, new socio-ethnic structures, communal cohesion, romantic rediscoveries of the past a.