Volume 21, Number 20 · December 12, 1974
"A People That Shall Dwell Alone…"
By Chimen Abramsky
Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870
by Jacob Katz
Harvard University Press, 271 pp., $12.00
Since World War II a number of important studies have been published in Israel, America, England, and Germany on the complex subject of the Jews who tried to leave the ghetto at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The immense fight for emancipation of these Jews, their aspiration to enter European society on the basis of equality, economic as well as political, have been the subject of intense scholarship, much of it naturally turning on the role of Germany during this crucial period.[1]
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