Author: Sheila O'Connell
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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London was the largest city in the world in the middle of the 18th century when the British Museum was founded, and characterized by contrasts of innovation and tradition, wealth and poverty, crime and philanthropy. This is the catalogue of a special exhibition celebrating the museum's anniversary.
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Todd M. Endelman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202356X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In The Jews of Georgian England, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues that the modernization of European Jewry encompassed far more than an intellectual revolution. His study recounts the rise of the Anglo-Jewish elite--great commercial and financial magnates such as the Goldsmids, the Franks, Samson Gideon, and Joseph Salvador--who rapidly adopted the gentlemanly style of life of the landed class and adjusted their religious practices to harmonize with the standards of upper-class Englishmen. Similarly, the Jewish poor--peddlers, hawkers, and old-clothes men--took easily to many patterns of lower-class life, including crime, street violence, sexual promiscuity, and coarse entertainment. An impressive marshaling of fact and analysis, The Jews of Georgian England serves to illuminate a significant aspect of the Jewish passage to modernity. "Contributes to English as well as Jewish history. . . . Every reader will learn something new about the statistics, setting or mores of Jewish life in the eighteenth century. . . ." --American Historical Review Todd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan. He is also the author of Comparing Jewish Societies, Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, and Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945.
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Joseph Jacobs
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Category : Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Author: Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: John Rylands Library
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Mel Scult
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004050662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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