TY  - BOOK
AU  - Endelman,Todd
TI  - Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History 
SN  - 9780691004792
AV  - BV2620 
U1  - 248.2/4608992404 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Christian converts from Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - Jews
KW  - Conversion to Christianity
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Identity
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - American Jews
KW  - Antisemitism (authors)
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Apostasy
KW  - Arthur Ruppin
KW  - Benjamin Disraeli
KW  - Bourgeoisie
KW  - British Jews
KW  - Career
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - Central Europe
KW  - Christendom
KW  - Christian
KW  - Christianity and Judaism
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Conscription
KW  - Conversion to Judaism
KW  - Court Jew
KW  - Defection
KW  - Dominican Order
KW  - Dowry
KW  - Early modern Europe
KW  - Early modern period
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Emigration
KW  - Enthusiasm
KW  - Exclusion
KW  - Gemeinde
KW  - Gentile
KW  - Germans
KW  - Haskalah
KW  - Heinrich Heine
KW  - His Family
KW  - Jewish Christian
KW  - Jewish education
KW  - Jewish emancipation
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - Jewish name
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Lithuania
KW  - Lutheranism
KW  - May Laws
KW  - Messianic Judaism
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Military service
KW  - Missionary (LDS Church)
KW  - Missionary
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Nazi Germany
KW  - Nazism
KW  - New Christian
KW  - New Israel
KW  - North America
KW  - Notion (ancient city)
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Old Christian
KW  - On the Jewish Question
KW  - Orthodox Judaism
KW  - Pale of Settlement
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Physician
KW  - Piety
KW  - Pogrom
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Prussia
KW  - Rabbi
KW  - Rabbinic Judaism
KW  - Reform Judaism
KW  - Refugee
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rosh Hashanah
KW  - Secular education
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Seminary
KW  - Sephardi Jews
KW  - Social status
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Spouse
KW  - Stereotypes of Jews
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Tax
KW  - Theology
KW  - Toleration
KW  - Victorian era
KW  - Walther Rathenau
KW  - Western Europe
KW  - Western world
KW  - Women in Judaism
KW  - World War I
KW  - World War II
KW  - Yiddish
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1 Conversion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe --; 2 Conversion in the Age of Enlightenment and Emancipation --; 3 Conversion in the Age of Illiberalism --; 4 Defection and Drift --; 5 Integration and Intermarriage --; 6 Conversions of Conviction --; 7 Neither Jew nor Christian --; 8 In Baptism’s Wake --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold—by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, Leaving the Jewish Fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from Judaism in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to today. Arguing that religious conviction was rarely a motive for Jews who became Christians, Todd Endelman shows that those who severed their Jewish ties were driven above all by pragmatic concerns—especially the desire to escape the stigma of Jewishness and its social, occupational, and emotional burdens.Through a detailed and colorful narrative, Endelman considers the social settings, national contexts, and historical circumstances that encouraged Jews to abandon Judaism, and factors that worked to the opposite effect. Demonstrating that anti-Jewish prejudice weighed more heavily on the Jews of Germany and Austria than those living in France and other liberal states as early as the first half of the nineteenth century, he reexamines how Germany's political and social development deviated from other European states. Endelman also reveals that liberal societies such as Great Britain and the United States, which tolerated Jewish integration, promoted radical assimilation and the dissolution of Jewish ties as often as hostile, illiberal societies such as Germany and Poland.Bringing together extensive research across several languages, Leaving the Jewish Fold will be the essential work on conversion and assimilation in modern Jewish history for years to come
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866380?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400866380
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400866380/original
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