Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries

by David Sorkin

Book Overview

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world

For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of--and indeed reactions to--the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691205256
• ISBN13: 9780691205250
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"