Description: Leaving the Jewish Fold Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History Author(s): Todd Endelman Format: Hardback Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 9780691004792, 978-0691004792 Synopsis 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 Judaism in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to today. Arguing that religious conviction was rarely a motive for Jews who became Christians, Todd Endelman shows that those who severed their Jewish ties were driven above all by pragmatic concerns--especially the desire to escape the stigma of Jewishness and its social, occupational, and emotional burdens. Through a detailed and colorful narrative, Endelman considers the social settings, national contexts, and historical circumstances that encouraged Jews to abandon Judaism, and factors that worked to the opposite effect. Demonstrating that anti-Jewish prejudice weighed more heavily on the Jews of Germany and Austria than those living in France and other liberal states as early as the first half of the nineteenth century, he reexamines how Germany's political and social development deviated from other European states. Endelman also reveals that liberal societies such as Great Britain and the United States, which tolerated Jewish integration, promoted radical assimilation and the dissolution of Jewish ties as often as hostile, illiberal societies such as Germany and Poland. Bringing together extensive research across several languages, Leaving the Jewish Fold will be the essential work on conversion and assimilation in modern Jewish history for years to come.
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Book Title: Leaving the Jewish Fold
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: History
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 709 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Todd Endelman
Subject Area: Social Organisations
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
