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

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....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface to the Ann Arbor Paperbacks Edition; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Secular Basis for Jewish Toleration; 2 Philo-Semitism in Anglo-Christianity; 3 Anti-Jewish Sentiment-Religious and Secular; 4 Gentlemen Jews: The Acculturation of the Anglo-Jewish Middle Class; 5 Peddlers and Hawkers; 6 Pickpockets and Pugilists; 7 Reforming the Jewish Poor; 8 Integration and Intermarriage; 9 Jewish Citizens in a Liberal State; 10 From Tradition to Modernity; Appendix: Statistics on Jewish Crime; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Notes; Index.