Title: Pledges of Jewish allegiance
Description: This title explores how, since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse.
Subjects: Conversion, Judaism, Jews, History and criticism, Jewish law, Orthodox Judaism, Responsa, Identity, History, Jews, identity, Judaism, history, modern period, 1750-, Conversion, judaism
Time periods: Modern period, 1750-