Keywords
Jewish Assimilation, French Jews, Revolution
Abstract
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, historians consistently freamed Jewish crises a conflict between the forces of assimilation and preservation, or in some cases liberalism and orthodoxy. Israeli scholars like Katz helped reinforce this frame in volumes like Tradition and Crisis, describing rationalist trends in modern Jusdaism like the Haskalah movement as an assimilation reaction to the liberalizing force of the European Enlightenment. Szajkowski extended this narriative to the French Revolution, asserting that French Jewry was faced with a choice between the defense of ancient tradition and absorption into a radical new movement that was unappreciative of the nuances of thir way of life.
Recommended Citation
Allen, Noah
(2022)
"The Jewish Assimilation of Europe,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 51:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol51/iss1/11
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