...The Jews of Moravia, like the Jews in the rest of the Habsburg monarchy, were emancipated during the Revolution of 1848. This chapter discusses the Revolution of 1848 and Samson Raphael Hirsch's prominent role in the struggle for emancipation. It also highlights the martyrdom of two Moravian Jews...

...The Revolution of 1848 ushered Jewish emancipation, which required the dissolution of autonomous Jewish communities. This brought new challenges to Christian-Jewish relations and placed new strains on the institutions of Jewish communal life. This chapter focuses on the promulgation...

...This book calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism. Focusing on the revolutionary 1790s, it introduces several dozen male reformers who insisted that women's emancipation would be the key to the establishment of a truly...

... as Sathmar Satu Mare Vásárhelyi Pál Colors and Years novel county nobility emancipation Evtuhov Catherine lawyers name changes peasantry readers and reading Revolution of 1848 schools Vulcan Iosif women associations Family literary journal Hungarian Tobacco News journal informal politics...

...This chapter examines the history of the abolition movement and the emancipation of slaves in Santos, Brazil. It investigates how a city that had been more dedicated to slavery than most other places in southeastern Brazil could declare itself “free of slavery” two years before the “golden...

...This chapter introduces the implications of the Livornese case for three broad fields of Jewish historiographical inquiry: the nature of Jewish acculturation; the history of the Jewish Enlightenment; and processes of Jewish emancipation. Livornese Jewry complicates the supposedly linear connection...

...In the last years of the nineteenth century, Nathan Birnbaum was already a prominent figure in the Zionist movement in Vienna. In addition to leading the Kadimah Society, Birnbaum published a newspaper called Selbst-Emancipation and coined the word “Zionism” by which Palestine...

...The introduction situates Jewish anti-Catholicism and anticlericalism in the history of debates on Jewish emancipation, secularism, and the transnational history of German and French politics since the Enlightenment. As an entangled history of Jewish anticlericalism in eighteenth and nineteenth...

... anticlericalism in order to take on different opponents. Turning to writers such as Heinrich Heine, Joseph Salvador, Léon Halévy, and Saul Ascher, this chapter argues that the Jewish anticlericalism of this era served simultaneously as an intervention into the politics of Jewish emancipation, an aesthetic...

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...This book examines the Jews and Jewish communities of Moravia during the Age of Emancipation. It takes a comparative approach to Moravian Jewry and sheds light on the religious, ideological, political, and socioeconomic challenges that transformed Central European Jewry. Galicia peasants Vienna...

... Russian Orthodox Church Soviet Union Yiddish Agursky Mikhail Holocaust Israeli Supreme Court Khrushchev Nikita Law of Return Men’ Alexander Rufeisen Oswald Brother Daniel Kornblatt Judith Deutsch Shternshis Anna comparative conversion emancipation radical assimilation Jewish futurity Jewish...

... cases Mantua Rome Trieste citizenship and political participation commercial utility Joseph II Toleranzpatent Patent of Toleration of Joseph II emancipation Ferdinand III de’ Medici Grand Duke Livornina charter Enlightenment emancipation Italy Sephardi diaspora merchant enclaves port...

... On the Sources of Jewish Law Delle Fonti del diritto ebraico Benamozegh Reform Judaism Risorgimento Gioberti Mazzini Pius IX Jewish emancipation it is difficult to overstate the importance of Italian politics and culture for Benamozegh’s understanding of a modernity predicated on both patriotism...

...This chapter discusses the transformation and disruption of religious, communal, and demographic patterns experienced by Moravian Jewry during the Age of Emancipation. It examines the origins and development of the Moravian Jewry from the Přemyslid dynasty until the Habsburg dynasty. Because...

... struggle for Jewish emancipation in the Habsburg lands. The revolution ushered in a new age of freedom, but it also precipitated demographic, financial, and social transformations, disrupting entrenched patterns that had characterized Moravian Jewish life since the Middle Ages. These changes emerged...