The Jews and the nation-states of Southeastern Europe from the 19th century to the Great Depression
Subtitle: combining viewpoints on a controversial story
By: edited by Tullia Catalan and Marco Dogo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781443894548
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Jews; History; Ethnic relations
Description: "In the second half of the 19th century, Southeastern Europe was home to a vast and heterogeneous constellation of Jewish communities, mainly Sephardic to the south (Bulgaria, Greece) and Ashkenazi to the north (Hungary, Romanian Moldavia), with a broad mixed area in-between (Croatia, Serbia, Romanian Wallachia). They were subject to a variety of post-Imperial governments (from the neo-constituted principality of Bulgaria to the Hungarian kingdom re-established as an autonomous entity in 1867), which shared a powerful nationalist and modernising drive. The relations between Jews and the nation-states' governments led to a series of issues relating to the enjoyment of civil rights, public and private education, and political participation, which found varying solutions, sometimes satisfactory for the Jews, but often undermined by the political instability of the region. In this book, the position of the Jews is also approached from the point of view of contemporary western Judaism, perhaps more sensitive to the sufferings of “our poor brothers in the East”; a western Judaism, emancipated, integrated, intellectually advanced, liberal, and able to intervene in situations under observation through diplomatic networks, its international philanthropic agencies and its political representatives"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neither foreigners nor citizens: Romanian Jews' long road to citizenship / Emanuela Costantini; title: The Jews of Serbia (1804-1918): from princely protection to formal emancipation / Milan Ristović; title: Jewish identity and the competing national projects in the western Balkans (1848-1929) / Bojan Mitrović; title: Loyalty sorely tried: the Jews and the Bulgarian state (1878-1935) / Marco Dogo; title: A place in the nation: Jews and the Greek state in the long 19th century / Evdoxios Doxiadis; title: The tie and the kaftan: the Hungarian Jews between emancipation, assimilation and Zionism (1848-1918) / Gianluca Volpi; title: East European Jewry under Western eyes: an overview of the official publications of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1860-1930) / Annalisa Di Fant; title: Looking east, thinking west: Isidore Loeb (1839-1892) and the Jews in the Ottoman Empire / Paolo L. Bernardini; title: The Jews of Southeastern Europe and the policies of Western European philantropic associations (1878-1930) / Tullia Catalan; title: The Vienna Jewish Alliance (Israelitische Allianz zu Wien) and its attempt to modernise Central Europe / Björn Siegel; title: Luigi Luzzatti and the Oriental Front: Jewish agency and the politics of religious toleration / Cristiana Facchini.