Emancipation
Subtitle: how liberating Europe's Jews from the ghetto led to revolution and renaissance
By: Michael Goldfarb.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781416547969; 9781439160480
Subjects: Jews -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century; Jews -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century; Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century; Haskalah -- History; Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-389) and index.
Table of contents: title: Emancipation. Everything in the universe is changing ; Hold fast to the religion of your fathers ; The means to render the Jews more useful and happy? ; No one shall be troubled for his religion ; The name of "active citizen" ; I shall maintain your freedom; title: Reformation. It is hateful to be a Jewess ; Israel must be exemplary for all peoples ; Incite the people to terror ; I try to tell my grief and it all becomes comic ; Since I was born a slave, I love freedom more than you do ; Let the Rothschilds sanctify themselves, let them speak to kings; title: Revolution. We have a solemn mission to perform ; The tradition of dead generations weighs on the brains of the living ; Do not presume discriminatory laws can be tolerated; title: Consolidation. The Jews are a nation ; Throw out the Jew Itzig, because he takes whatever he sees; title: Renaissance. I want to get out; title: out! Out of the ghetto ; The Jewish question : anxiety about my children ; The truth is on the march ; Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed ; My honor has been restored ; Every Jew has his system.