The Jews of Europe in the modern era : a socio-historical outline /
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| Uniform title: | Zsidóság Európában a modern korban. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Hungarian |
| Imprint: | Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2004] |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Demography and Social (Re)Stratification
- The Diaspora in Europe and the world in numbers
- Beginnings of 'strategic' migrations in the modern era and the immigration into Hungary
- The logic of the East-West migratory movements
- 'Overurbanization'
- Residential differentiation, segregation and urbanization
- 'Demographic transition' and modernization
- Social circumstances of rapid demographic modernization
- Demographic consequences of renouncing religious affiliation
- Heterogamy and de-Judaization
- Dismantling of feudalism as a liberating process
- Historical antecedents of economic modernization: exclusion and its compensation
- Religious intellectualism and economic modernization
- Collective dispositions and group identity as economic capital
- External socio-historical conditions of restratification
- General features of economic modernization: self-sufficiency and urban concentration
- Free market propensities and entrepreneurial flair
- Reproduction of intermediary functions in commerce and finance
- Specialization and capital concentration in commerce and credit
- Archaism and modernization in industry
- Traditionalism and restratification in intellectual occupations
- Cultural capital and the 'dual structure' of intellectual markets
- The cultural industry, assimilation, and intellectual achievements
- Social circumstances of Jewish 'overeducation'
- 'Overeducation,' assimilation and strategies of integration
- Assimilatory pressure and the influence of cultural heritage on restratification within the intelligentsia
- Assimilationist compensation and creativity
- Chapter 2. The Challenge of Emancipation. Jewish Policies of the New Nation States and Empires (18th-20th Centuries)
- Circumstances of political renewal
- Modernization programs affecting the Jews
- Post-feudalistic sources of the 'Jewish Question'
- Social circumstances of (near-) unconditional emancipation and integration in the West
- Denominational components of integration and emancipation in the West
- Local approaches to integration in the West
- 'Enlightened' absolutism, or historical antecedents of the modern 'Jewish policy' of Central European powers
- Seeds of absolutist emancipation and Jewry in the Habsburg Empire
- Aufklarung, Haskalah and 'conditional emancipation' in the German world
- Haskalah and modalities of national assimilation in the Austrian Monarchy
- Hungary and the Balkans: more or less successful examples of national integration
- Political sources of the rejection of emancipation in Russia and Romania
- Integration and exclusion under Russian absolutism
- Pogram policy and state anti-Semitism at the end of the tsarist regime
- Emancipation and forced assimilation after 1917: the ordeals of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik dictatorship
- United Romania, or a case study in Judaeophobic nation-building
- Chapter 3. Identity Constructions and Strategies since the Haskalah. Assimilation, Its Crises and the Birth of Jewish Nationalisms
- Inherited group identity and the challenge of assimilation
- Concomitants of the new identity strategies
- Assimilation as an impossible undertaking
- Paradigms of rapprochement: acculturation and 'adoptive nationalism'
- Religious indifferentism and religious reform
- Factors influencing social integration and 'counter-assimilation'
- Modernization of society at large and chances of assimilation
- 'Counter-assimilation'
- Self-denial and conversion: a forced path of assimilation
- Conversion, mixed marriage, 'nationalization' of surnames
- Crises of assimilation as psychic disturbance and traumatic experience
- Other pathologies of assimilation: dissimulation, compensation and dissimilation
- The crisis of assimilation and the nationalist responses
- Main socio-historical dimensions of Jewish nationalism
- Intellectual forerunners of Zionism
- 'Lovers of Zion,' or 'practical Zionists'
- Establishment of political Zionism and its initial dilemmas
- The ideological complexion of Zionism and the 'Zionist synthesis'
- The organization of Zionism in Europe
- The anti-Zionist camp and its points of reference
- Emigrants and those taking the path of aliyah
- The ideological spectrum of the Zionist movement
- The Zionist extreme left and extreme right
- Cultural autonomism, or the liberal branch of Jewish nationalism
- The Jewish Socialist movement in Eastern Europe
- Chapter 4. The Road to the Shoah. From Christian Anti-Judaism to Radical Anti-Semitism
- Making sense of nonsense
- The logic of stigmatization and the Christian precedent
- Anti-Semitism as a self-inducing and self-fulfilling prophecy
- Functional models of modern anti-Semitism: the code of negativity and symbolic violence
- Anti-Semitism as a compensatory mechanism for social disadvantage
- Scapegoating, occupational competition and class rivalries
- Anti-Semitism and conflicting political interests
- Mechanisms of 'poor concertation' and 'Jewish conspiracy'
- Anti-Semitism as anticapitalism
- Judaeophobia and romantic nationalism
- Intellectual sources of the ideology of 'rootedness'
- The 'Aryan myth' and early versions of racial doctrine
- Chamberlain, the father and high priest of anti-Semitic racial doctrine
- Forms and historical dimensions of anti-Jewish violence in the recent past
- The revival of political anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe
- Two 'liberal' counterexamples: France and Hungary
- Austria from von Schonerer and Lueger to the Anschluss
- German imperial anti-Semitism from court chaplain Stocker to Hitler
- The rise of Nazism and the road to the Shoah
- The implementation of the genocide
- The Shoah. Local variants and the reaction of the Allied
- Chapter 5. Epilogue: After 1945
- Survivors of the Shoah, or the impossible return
- Trauma of survival and painful 'liberation'
- Exodus and the questionable 'new start' in sovietized Eastern Europe
- People of the Shoah
- Israel and the new Jewish identity
- Religious indifferentism and 're-Judaization'
- Hostages of Cold War in the Soviet Union
- Remnant Jews and new fangled anti-Semitism in the Soviet satellites
- Anti-Semitism in the West, new and old: a changing balance of forces to fight it
- New conditions of social integration in the East and West
- Communism and Jewry
- Concluding remarks
- Selected Bibliography for Further Reading
- Biographical Index