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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Judd, Robin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.