Contested Rituals : Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 /
In Contested Rituals, Robin Judd shows that circumcision and kosher butchering became focal points of political struggle among the German state, its municipal governments, Jews, and Gentiles. In 1843, some German-Jewish fathers refused to circumcise their sons, prompting their Jewish communities to...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : Rituals, identities, and politics
- The circumcision questions in the German-speaking lands, 1843-1857
- German unification, emancipation, and the "ritual questions"
- The radicalization of the ritual questions, 1880-1916
- "The disgrace of our century!" : circumcision, kosher butchering, and modern German politics
- The Schächtfragen and Jewish political behavior
- A "renaissance" for the ritual questions? : the ritual debates of the Weimar Republic.