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In Broadening Jewish History Todd Endelman
seeks to expand the horizons of modern Jewish historiography by focusing on
'ordinary' rather than exceptional Jews, arguing that what ordinary people did
or felt can do more to deepen our understanding of Jewish history than what a
few exceptional individuals thought and wrote. He also makes a strong case for
comparative history, showing convincingly that only a comparison across
national borders can identify the Germanness of German Jewish history or the
Englishness of English Jewish history, and thereby reveal what is unique about
each. This innovative collection of historiographical essays and case studies
redefines the area under consideration and deftly restates the need for Jewish
social history to counterbalance the current focus on cultural studies.
The essays offer an important
examination of the major trends in the writing of modern Jewish history and the
assumptions that have guided historians in their narration of the Jewish past.
Professor Endelman shows in particular how the two watershed events of
twentieth-century Jewish history—the Holocaust and the establishment of the
State of Israel—influenced Jewish historiography for decades thereafter. He
also demonstrates how progressive integration into the scholarly framework of
American academia has shaped both the form and the content of Jewish historical
research.
Each of the case studies focuses
on a largely unknown figure whose career illustrates the often tortuous paths
of integration and acceptance that Jews faced. Some achieved fleeting fame but
many of the people who populate the volume remain altogether unknown, their
histories recoverable only as statistics.
In its
wide-ranging analysis of trends in recent historical writing and its treatment
of key themes and issues, this book is essential reading for professional
historians, students, and indeed all those with an interest in Jewish history.
Contents
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
PART I: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES
1 Making Jews Modern: Jewish Self-Identification and West European Categories of Belonging
2 The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience
3 The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England
4 Welcoming Ex-Jews into the Jewish Historiographical Fold
PART II: COMPARISONS
5 The Social and Political Context of Conversion in Germany and England
6 Jewish Self-Hatred in Germany and England
7 German Jews in Victorian England
PART III: MARGINAL JEWS
8 The Chequered Career of 'Jew' King
9 The Emergence of Disraeli's Jewishness
10 Disraeli and the Myth of Sephardi Superiority
11 The Impact of the Converso Experience on English Sephardim
12 The Frankaus of London
13 Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw
14 Memories of Jewishness
Bibliography
Index
