French Jewry and the Church-State Dilemma

From the Revolution to the Great War (1789-1914)

Zvi Jonathan Kaplan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2025
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9798887197845 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes the development of Jewish positions on the relationship between Church and State from the Revolution until the Great War It is a comprehensive study of the complex interplay among different segments of the Jewish population and the community’s attempt to come to terms with its social and religious status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

As this book demonstrates, the organized French Jewish community strategically charted the political waters by steering clear of extremist political positions and by adopting a “soft clerical” approach to Church-State issues. This centrist approach subjected French Jews to criticism from both anticlerical and clerical forces, but nonetheless the rabbinate, consistorial officials, and the Jewish press believed that French Judaism and French Jewry would thrive most in a climate of moderation.

Zvi Jonathan Kaplan is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Touro University. He received a law degree from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. Kaplan has published extensively on Moses Mendelssohn, Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy, and modern French Jewish history. He is the author of the book Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? French Jewry and the Problem of Church and State (Brown Judaic Studies) and co-editor of The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities (Brill Press).

Introduction

1. The Making of Franco-Judaism: 1789–1848

2. Jews and the Church-State Question during the Second Republic: 1848–1851

3. Between Clericalism and Anticlericalism: French Jewry, 1852–1881

4. Confronting Radical Anticlericalism and Separation: French Jewry, 1881–1905

5. The Aftermath of Separation—Challenges and Opportunities: French Jewry, 1905-1914

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2025
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 2340 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9798887197845 / 9798887197845
Zustand	Neuware