Emancipation: New Possibilities and New Perils
Prof. Shulamit Volkov
The 19th century brought with it gradual emancipation to the European Jews, a process which granted them complete legal equality and full citizenship, eliminating centuries-long restrictions.
How did a European society, which was used to seeing the Jews as socially inferior and visibly different, handle their assimilation into civilian life?
References
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Birnbaum, Pierre and Ira Katznelson, eds., Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
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Katz, Jacob, Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870 (Cambridge M.A., Harvard University Press, 1973).
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Volkov, Shulamit, “Exploring the Other: The Enlightenment’s Search for the Boundaries of Humanity,” in Robert Wistrich, ed., Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia (Amsterdam: Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999), pp. 148 – 167.
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Volkov, Shulamit, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
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