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Author Goldfarb, Michael.

Title Emancipation : how liberating Europe's Jews from the ghetto led to revolution and renaissance / Michael Goldfarb.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.8924 GOLDFARB    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.892 GO    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xix, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-389) and index.
Contents Everything in the universe is changing -- Hold fast to the religion of your fathers -- The means to render the Jews more useful and happy? -- No one shall be troubled for his religion -- The name of "active citizen" -- I shall maintain your freedom -- It is hateful to be a Jewess -- Israel must be exemplary for all peoples -- Incite the people to terror -- I try to tell my grief and it all becomes comic -- Since I was born a slave I love freedom more than you do -- Let the Rothschilds sanctify themselves, let them speak to kings -- We have a solemn mission to perform -- The tradition of dead generations weighs on the brains of the living -- Do not presume discriminatory laws can be tolerated -- The Jews are a nation -- Throw out the Jew Itzig, because he takes whatever he sees -- I want to get out-- out! Out of the ghetto -- The Jewish question: anxiety about my children -- The truth is on the march -- Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed -- My honor has been restored -- Every Jew has his system.
Subject Jews -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century.
Jews -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century.
Jews -- Emancipation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 18th century.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century.
Haskalah -- History.
Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN 9781416547969
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