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Leaving the Jewish fold : conversion and radical assimilation in modern Jewish history /

Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold-by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, Leaving the Jewish Fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Endelman, Todd M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conversion in medieval and early modern Europe
  • Conversion in the age of Enlightenment and Emancipation
  • Conversion in the age of illiberalism
  • Defection and drift, early- and mid-twentieth century
  • Intermarriage and integration mid-century to the present
  • Conversions of conviction
  • Neither Jew nor Christian, new religions, new creeds
  • In baptism's wake.