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LEAVING THE JEWISH FOLD CONVERSION OTHER
Todd Endelman
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Description for LEAVING THE JEWISH FOLD CONVERSION OTHER
Hardcover. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBLW; HRAM9; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 36. Weight in Grams: 762.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
766 g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691004792
SKU
V9780691004792
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About Todd Endelman
Todd M. Endelman is professor emeritus of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan. His books include The Jews of Britain and Broadening Jewish History.
Reviews for LEAVING THE JEWISH FOLD CONVERSION OTHER
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience (Dorot Foundation Award), Jewish Book Council "[A]n outstanding, wide-ranging, judicious and inevitably provocative contribution to the flourishing field of Jewish history ... supported by statistics taken from many sources and interspersed with thumbnail sketches of individual lives... Vivid and absorbing."
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