JEWISH EMANCIPATION: A SELECTION OF DOCUMENTS
Raphael Mahler
Published by The American Jewish Committee, New York, 1941
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Original Stapled Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 72 pages. In English. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Political and social conditions -- Sources. Juifs -- Conditions politiques et sociales -- Sources. Juifs -- Histoire -- 1789-1945 -- Sources. Mahler, (1899-1977) , was a historian. Mahler, who was born in Nowy SEcz, eastern Galicia, Poland, studied at the rabbinical seminary and the university of Vienna until 1922. He served as a teacher of general and Jewish history in Jewish secondary schools in Poland. In 1937 he immigrated to the United States and was a teacher in various educational institutions in New York. (EJ, Staff). Top cm of most pages clipped. Otherwise, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-77-12). Seller Inventory # 28137
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Title: JEWISH EMANCIPATION: A SELECTION OF DOCUMENTS
Publisher: The American Jewish Committee, New York
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Paperback
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Jewish Emancipation: a Selection of Documents (Jews and the Post-War World)
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Jewish Emancipation-a Selection of Documents
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Jewish Emancipation; A Selection of Documents
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Pamphlet. Condition: Fair. Third Printing [Stated]. 74 pages. The Table of Contents is at the end, disbound but present. This the Pamphlet Series: Jews and the Post-War World, Number 1. This work was associated with the Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems. Raphael Mahler ( August 15, 1899 October 4, 1977) was a Galician-born Jewish historian who worked in Poland, America, and Israel. From 1924 to 1937, Mahler taught general and Jewish history in the Gymnasium and the Lyceum "Ascola" in Warsaw. He was active in the Warsaw branch of the Polish Historical Society. He contributed to and edited Der Yunger Historikes from 1926 to 1929, Bleter far Geshicte from 1934 to 1939, the YIVO yearbooks. In 1937, Mahler immigrated to America at the invitation of YIVO and settled in New York City. He worked as a lecturer in YIVO's research student courses, the Jewish National Labor Alliance's teachers seminary, and the Workmen's Circle's courses. He was a lecturer of the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers' Institute from 1938 to 1939. He wrote extensively on Jewish history and historiography. Thirty of his articles were published in the Encyclopedia Judaica in Berlin, and he contributed articles to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. In 1950, Mahler immigrated to Israel and lectured on Jewish economic history at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics. In 1959, he joined the Tel Aviv University faculty. He wrote in Yiddish, Polish, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. A bibliography of his work compiled in 1974 listed over 500 publications. In 1977, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to Jewish scholarship. Jewish emancipation was the process in various nations in Europe of eliminating Jewish disabilities, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights. It included efforts within the community to integrate into their societies as citizens. It occurred gradually between the late 18th century and the early 20th century. Jewish emancipation followed after the Age of Enlightenment and the concurrent Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Various nations repealed or superseded previous discriminatory laws applied specifically against Jews where they resided. Before the emancipation, most Jews were isolated in residential areas from the rest of the society; emancipation was a major goal of European Jews of that time, who worked within their communities to achieve integration in the majority societies and broader education. Many became active politically and culturally within wider European civil society as Jews gained full citizenship. They immigrated to countries offering better social and economic opportunities, such as the United Kingdom and the Americas. Some European Jews turned to socialism, Zionism or both. The early stages of Jewish emancipation movements were part of the general progressive efforts to achieve freedom and rights for minorities. While this was a movement, it was also a pursuit for equal rights. Thus, the emancipation movement would be a long process. The question of equal rights for Jews was tied to demands for constitutions and civil rights in various nations. Jewish statesmen and intellectuals, such as Heinrich Heine, Johann Jacoby, Gabriel Riesser, Berr Isaac Berr, and Lionel Nathan Rothschild, worked with the general movement toward liberty and political freedom, rather than for Jews specifically. During the Revolutions of 1848, Jewish emancipation was granted by the Basic Rights of the Frankfurt Parliament (Paragraph 13), which said that civil rights were not to be conditional on religious faith. But only some German states introduced the Frankfurt parliamentary decision as state law, such as Hamburg; other states were reluctant. Important German states, such as Prussia (1812), Württemberg (1828), Electorate of Hesse (1833), and Hanover (1842), had already emancipated their Jews as citizens. By doing so, they hoped to educate the gentiles, and terminate laws that sought to oppress the Jews. Although the movement was mostly successful; some early emancipated Jewish communities continued to suffer persisting or new de facto, though not legal, discrimination against those Jews trying to achieve careers in public service and education. Those few states that had refrained from Jewish emancipation were forced to do so by an act of the North German Federation on 3 July 1869, or when they acceded to the newly united Germany in 1871. The emancipation of all Jewish Germans was reversed by Nazi Germany from 1933 until the end of World War II. Seller Inventory # 90105