Rites and Passages : : The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 165-186 / / Jay R. Berkovitz.

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• VerfasserIn: Berkovitz, Jay R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatme...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Leadership, Community, and Ritual in the Ancien Régime
• Chapter 1. Communal Authority and Leadership
• Chapter 2. Secularization, Consumption, and Communal Controls
• Chapter 3. Ritual and Religious Culture in Alsace-Lorraine
• Part II. Revolution, Régénération, and Emancipation
• Chapter 4. The Ordeal of Citizenship, 1782-1799
• Chapter 5. Religion, State, and Community: The Impact of Napoleonic Reform
• Chapter 6. The 'Jewish Question" During the Bourbon Restoration
• Part III. Transformations in Jewish Self-Understanding
• Chapter 7. Scholarship and Identity: La Science de Judaïsme
• Chapter 8. Rabbinic Authority and Ritual Reform
• Chapter 9. Patrie et Religion: The Social and Religious Implications of Civic Equality
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments