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A people apart : the Jews in Europe, 1789-1939

Author: David Vital
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Oxford history of modern Europe.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Vital
ISBN: 0198219806 9780198219804 0198208057 9780198208051
OCLC Number: 40338446
Description: xviii, 944 p. ; 23 cm.
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?
Series Title: Oxford history of modern Europe.
Responsibility: by David Vital.
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Abstract:

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.

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