19th century jews
19th century judaism in europe
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christianity and judaism
christians and jews in europe
church and jews
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ethnic relations europe
history
history of jewish experience in europe
history of judaism in europe
history of violence against jews in europe
jewish culture
jewish emancipation
jewish ghettos
jewish history
jewish presence in europe
jewish social integration
jews of europe
jews of italy
jews of spain
judaism in europe
Product details
- ISBN 9780520087651
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Anna Foa's richly innovative history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century breaks through the boundaries of traditional narratives. Instead of featuring a long series of catastrophes and cataclysms and the Jews' responses to them, Foa concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life, and on continuities and correspondences among very different local Jewish communities. Foa's illuminating overview of the issues and debates that have dominated the study of Western European Jewish society more than justifies her blending of narrative history with thematic investigations. This is, perhaps surprisingly, the story of a stability that underlies and survives change. In a new afterword, prepared expressly for the English edition, Foa talks about the twentieth century's two transforming phenomena, Zionism and the Holocaust, and the ways they have changed Jewish identity and historiography.
Anna Foa is a research fellow at the University of Rome "La Sapienza." In addition to The Jews of Europe after the Black Death (published in Italy as Ebrei in Europa, 1992), she is the author or editor of four other books, most recently Giordano Bruno (1998). Andrea Grover is Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities at New York University.
