A People Apart
The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 944 pages ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Oxford history of modern Europe.
Contents:
6. Crystallization -- pt. III. New Dispensations. 7. War. 8. Peace. 9. Captivity. 10. Denouement.
Introduction: The Old Dispensation -- pt. I. Integration and Fragmentation. 1. Proposals. 2. Disjunctions. 3. Questions from without and within -- pt. II. Aspirations and Equivocations. 4. Movement. 5. Auto-Emancipation?
Introduction: The Old Dispensation -- pt. I. Integration and Fragmentation. 1. Proposals. 2. Disjunctions. 3. Questions from without and within -- pt. II. Aspirations and Equivocations. 4. Movement. 5. Auto-Emancipation?
Subjects:
Jews -- Europe -- History.
Jews -- History -- 1789-1945.
Jews -- Europe -- Politics and government.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Antisemitism -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
Jews -- Europe -- History.
Jews -- History -- 1789-1945.
Jews -- Europe -- Politics and government.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Antisemitism -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
Target Audience: 1590L
ISBN:
0198219806
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC HISTORY Europe Vit | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 899-917) and index.
English.
English.