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Rites and passages : the beginnings of modern Jewish culture in France, 1650-1860 /

In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatme...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berkovitz, Jay R., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Series:Jewish culture and contexts.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Leadership, community, and ritual in the Ancien Régime
  • 2. Revolution, Régénération, and emancipation
  • 3. Transformations in Jewish self-understanding.