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The Jews and the Nation

Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France

By: Frederic Jaher

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The Jews and the Nation

Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France

By: Frederic Jaher

This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France--specifically, from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775-1815). Frederic Jaher develops a vehicle for a broader and uniquely rich analysis of French and American nation-building and political culture. He returns grand theory to historical scholarship by examining the Jewish encounter with state formation and Jewish acquisition of civic equality from the perspective of the "paradigm of liberal inclusiveness" as formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis Hartz. Jaher argues that the liberal paradigm worked for American Jews but that France's illiberal impulses hindered its Jewish population in acquiring full civic rights. He also explores the relevance of the Tocqueville-Hartz theory for other marginalized groups, particularly blacks and women in France and America. However, the experience of these groups suggests that the theory has its limits. A central issue of this penetrating study is whether a state with democratic-liberal pretensions (America) can better protect the rights of marginalized enclaves than can a state with authoritarian tendencies (France). The Tocqueville-Hartz thesis has become a major issue in political science, and this book marks the first time it has been tested in a historical study. The Jews and the Nation returns a unifying theory to a discipline fragmented by microtopical scholarship.

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1400825261

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A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in America

By: Frederic Cople Jaher

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A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in America

By: Frederic Cople Jaher

Home to nearly one-half of the world's Jews, America also harbours its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility and no national church, the questions arise of how anti-Semitism became a presence in America, and how did America's beginnings and history affect the course of this bigotry?

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Harvard University Press

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0674790073

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A Half-century of Greatness

The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884

By: Frederic Ewen

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A Half-century of Greatness

The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884

By: Frederic Ewen

A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine-especially Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, the Bront?s, and George Eliot; Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, Wagner, and several German poets; the Hungarian poet Sndor Petfi; Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bakunin, and Herzen in Russia, and the great Ukrainian poet Shevchenko.The book was reconstructed and edited by Dr. Jeffrey Wollock from Ewen's final manuscript. It includes the author's own reference citations throughout, a reconstructed bibliography, and an updated "further reading" list.This is Ewen's last work, the long-lost companion to his Heroic Imagination. Together, these books present a panorama of the social, political, and artistic aspects of European Romanticism, especially foreshadowing and complementing recent work on the relation of Marxism to romanticism. Anyone interested in what Lukacs called "Romantic anticapitalism," who appreciates such books as Marshall Berman's Adventures in Marxism (1999) Lwy & Sayre's Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity (2001) or E.P. Thompson's The Romantics (1997), will find the Ewen volumes a welcome addition.

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NYU Press

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0814722369

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9780814722367

The Jews and the Nation

Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France

By: Frederic Jaher

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Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France

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A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in America

By: Frederic Cople Jaher

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The Origins and Rise of Anti-semitism in America

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The Jews and the Nation

The Jews and the Nation

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

A Half-century of Greatness

A Half-century of Greatness

The Jews and the Nation

The Jews and the Nation

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

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