Title Broadening Jewish history : towards a social history of ordinary Jews / Todd M. Endelman

Published London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) Series The Littman library of Jewish civilization Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) Contents Note on transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I. Methods and perspectives -- 1. Making Jews modern: Jewish self-identification and West European categories of belonging -- 2. The legitimization of the diaspora experience -- 3. The Englishness of Jewish modernity in England -- 4. Welcoming ex-Jews into the Jewish historiographical fold -- Part II. Comparisons -- 5. The social and political context of conversion in Germany and England: 1870-1914 6. Jewish self-hatred in Germany and England -- 7. German Jews in Victorian England -- Part III. Marginal Jews -- 8. The chequered career of 'Jew' King -- 9. The emergence of Disraeli's jewishness -- 10. Benjamin Disraeli and the myth of Sephardi superiority --11. The impact of the Converso experience on English Sephardim -- 12. The Frankaus of London -- 13. Jewish converts in nineteenth-century Warsaw -- 14. Memories of Jewishness -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In Broadening Jewish History Todd Endelman seeks to expand the horizons of modern Jewish historiography by focusing on 'ordinary' rather than exceptional Jews, arguing that what ordinary people did or felt can do more to deepen our understanding of Jewish history than what a few exceptional individuals thought and wrote. He also makes a strong case for comparative history, showing convincingly that only a comparison across national borders can identify the Germanness of German Jewish history or the Englishness of English Jewish history, and thereby reveal what is unique about each. This innova Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed September 7, 2023) Subject Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881. SUBJECT Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 fast Subject Jews -- Europe -- History -- 1789-1945 Jews -- Great Britain -- History Jews -- Germany -- History. Judaism -- History. Jews -- Europe -- Social conditions Christian converts from Judaism. Jews -- Europe -- Identity -- History Jews -- Cultural assimilation. Judaism Jews -- Social conditions Jews -- Identity Jews -- Cultural assimilation Jews Ethnic relations Christian converts from Judaism SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations Subject Europe Germany Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781800345331 180034533X

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