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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 June 1999
- ISBN 9780198219804
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages962 pages
- Size 224x143x53 mm
- Weight 1231 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events. Controversially, Professor Vital concludes that the history of the Jewish people was indeed in crucial respects - although certainly not all - of their own making; at times by their own autonomous action and choice; at others by inaction and default.
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The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events.
David Vital explores the Jews' troubled relationship with Europe, documenting the struggles of this 'nation without a territory' to establish a place for itself within an increasingly polarized and nationalist continent. He examines the clash within the Jewish community between politically neutral traditionalists and a new group of activists, whose unprecedented demands for national and political self-determination were stimulated both by increasing civil emancipation and the mounting effort to drive the Jews out of Europe altogether. Controversially, Professor Vital concludes that the history of the Jewish people was indeed in crucial respects although certainly not all of their own making; at times by their own autonomous action and choice; at others by inaction and default.
This powerful and stimulating new analysis represents a watershed in our understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.
gradually reveals a treasure trove of fascinating and unfamiliar details about the history of the Jews in most countries of Europe from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of WW II.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Old Dispensation: the old regime; two levels of authority, two yokes to bear; social control: the modalities; the Gevir (italic), self-help and self-governance; consensus and confusion
Part I: Integration and Disintegration
Proposals (italic): under the Enlightenment - 'useful' Jews and 'useless' Jews; in England - incrementalism; in France - principles; in the Germanies - inpenetrable hostility and legal rigour; in Poland - deadlock; in Russia - despotism for all...; the Jews as an encumbrance to be dealt with
Social Fragmentation(italic): emancipation: the early responses; the fears of the orthodox; the enthusiasm of the modernists; the cultural inroads; the Haskalah as a halfway house; modern education - the Russian carrot; military subscription - the Russian lash; the irreversability of fragmentation
Questions From Without and Within(italic): the Jewish question posed; the question formulated; the Jews re-characterized; the Jews re-demonized; calls for treatment; the Decembrists (along with other Russians) try their hand; internal politics: the beginnings; triumph at Damascus...; ... and its limitations; Jews in general politics and in society at large - the German model
Part II: Aspirations and Equivocations
Movement(italic): pogroms; poverty; migration; decline; West versus East; Eastern European Jewry as the question
Auto-Emancipation(italic): leaderlessness as a condition; national self-determination as an idea: Zion as a destination; Jews as revolutionaries; the Bund; Herzl
Crystallization(italic): intercession institutionalized; 1878 - triumph in Berlin, failure in Bucharest; the limits of libel and the rule of law; Bernard Lazare and the Affair; Russia in 1905 - Jews as targets, Jews as participants; the Zionists stand still; the orthodox circle their wagons
Part III: New Dispensations
War(italic): the Jewish contingents; the Jewish increment; the 'Palestine idea'; a neutral Zionism, belligerent Zionists; the 'Palestine Idea' revived; self-determination
Peace(italic): Bolshevik Russia and the binding of its Jews; the great slaughter; who speaks for the Jews?; at the Peace conference
Captivity(italic): Wilson's world; the nation-state as grindstone; ancient frictions in a new Poland; Polish equivocation; Jewish ambivalence: Germany takes the lead; Machtergreifung(italic; towards extrusion; the Jews of Germany crushed; a community destroyed
Denouement(italic): on the eve; once again: who will lead them, where will they be led?; a world Jewish Congress; loyalties and principles; the purpose of Zionism, the needs of the Jews; pragmatism and honour; the final rejection; into the night
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
