The Industrial Revolution and Urbanism

Dr. Raphael Vago

The Industrial Revolution and the gradual urbanization that accompanied it, brought with them new challenges to the population of Europe. These would play a vital role in the rise of new movements and ideologies as well as have a major influence on the evolution of modern antisemitism.

How did the sense of disillusionment and discontent that festered among large segments of the European population in this time period affect the development of antisemitism?

References

• Dotterer, Ronald L., Deborah Dash Moore and Steven Martin Cohen, (eds.), Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World (Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press, 1991).

• Evans, Richard J., The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (New York: Viking,2016).

• Mendelsohn, Ezra, ed., People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

• Teich, Mikulas and Roy Porter, eds., The Industrial Revolution in National Context: Europe and the USA (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).