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Contents List of Tables Preface Chapter 1 Demography and Social (Re)Stratification The Diaspora in Europe and the world in numbers Beginnings of 'strategic' migrations in the modern era and the immigration into Hungary The logic of the East-West migratory movements 'Overurbanization' Residential differentiation, segregation and urbanization 'Demographic transition' and modernization Social circumstances of rapid demographic modernization Demographic consequences of renouncing religious affiliation Heterogamy and de-Judaization Dismantling of feudalism as a liberating process Historical antecedents of economic modernization: exclusion and its compensation Religious intellectualism and economic modernization Collective dispositions and group identity as economic capital External socio-historical conditions of restratification General features of economic modernization: self-sufficiency and urban concentration Free-market propensities and entrepreneurial flair Reproduction of intermediary functions in commerce and finance Specialization and capital concentration in commerce and credit Archaism and modernization in industry Traditionalism and restratification in intellectual occupations Cultural capital and the 'dual structure' of intellectual markets The cultural industry, assimilation, and intellectual achievements Social circumstances of Jewish 'overeducation' 'Overeducation,' assimilation and strategies of integration Assimilatory pressure and the influence of cultural heritage on restratification within the intelligentsia Assimilationist compensation and creativity Chapter 2 The Challenge of Emancipation. Jewish Policies of the New Nation-States and Empires (18th-19th centuries) Circumstances of political renewal Modernization programs affecting the Jews Post-feudalistic sources of the 'Jewish Question' Social circumstances of (near-) unconditional emancipation and integration in the West Denominational components of integration and emancipation in the West Local approaches to integration in the West 'Enlightened' absolutism, or historical antecedents of the modern 'Jewish policy' of Central European powers Seeds of absolutist emancipation and Jewry in the Habsburg Empire Aufklärung, Haskalah and 'conditional emancipation' in the German world Haskalah and modalities of national assimilation in the Austrian Monarchy Hungary and the Balkans: more or less successful examples of national integration Political sources of the rejection of emancipation in Russia and Romania Integration and exclusion under Russian absolutism Pogrom policy and state anti-Semitism at the end of the tsarist régime Emancipation and forced assimilation after 1917: the ordeals of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik dictatorship United Romania, or a case study in Judaeophobic nation-building Chapter 3 Identity Constructions and Strategies since the Haskalah. Assimilation, its crises and the Birth of Jewish Nationalisms Inherited group identity and the challenge of assimilation Concomitants of the new identity strategies Assimilation as an impossible undertaking Paradigms of rapprochement: acculturation and 'adoptive nationalism' Religious indifferentism and religious reform Factors influencing social integration and 'counter-assimilation' Modernization of society at large and chances of assimilation 'Counter-assimilation' Self-denial and conversion: a forced path of assimilation Conversion, mixed marriage, 'nationalization' of surname Crisis of assimilation as a psychic disturbance and traumatic experience Other pathologies of assimilation: dissimulation, compensation and dissimilation The crisis of assimilation and the nationalist responses Main socio-historical dimensions of Jewish nationalism Intellectual forerunners of Zionism 'Lovers of Zion,' or the 'practical Zionists' Establishment of political Zionism and its initial dilemmas The ideological complexion of Zionism and the 'Zionist synthesis' The organization of Zionism in Europe The anti-Zionist camp and its points of reference Emigrants and those taking the path of aliyah The ideological spectrum of the Zionist movement The Zionist extreme left and extreme right Cultural autonomism, or the liberal branch of Jewish nationalism The Jewish Socialist movement in Eastern Europe Chapter 4 The Road to the Shoah. From Christian Anti-Judaism to Radical Anti-Semitism Making sense of nonsense The logic of stigmatization and the Christian precedent Anti-Semitism as a self-inducing and self-fulfilling prophecy Functional models of modern anti-Semitism: the code of negativity and symbolic violence Anti-Semitism as a compensatory mechanism for social disadvantage Scapegoating, occupational competition and class rivalries Anti-Semitism and conflicting political interests Mechanisms of 'poor concertation' and 'Jewish conspiracy' Anti-Semitism as anticapitalism Judaeophobia and romantic nationalism Intellectual sources of the ideology of 'rootedness' The 'Aryan myth' and early versions of racial doctrine Chamberlain, the father and high priest of anti-Semitic racial doctrine Forms and historical dimensions of anti-Jewish violence in the recent past The revival of political anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe Two 'liberal' counterexamples: France and Hungary Austria from von Schönerer and Lueger to the Anschluss German imperial anti-Semitism from court chaplain Stöcker to Hitler The rise of Nazism and the road to the Shoah The implementation of the genocide Chapter 5 Epilogue: After 1945 Survivors of the Shoah, or the impossible return Trauma of survival and painful 'liberation' Exodus and the questionable 'new start' in sovietized Eastern Europe People of the Shoah Israel and the new Jewish identity Religious indifferentism and 're-Judaization' Hostages of Cold War in the Soviet Union Remnant Jews and new fangled anti-Semitism in the Soviet satellites Anti-Semitism in the West, new and old: a changing balance of forces to fight it New conditions of social integration in the East and West Communism and Jewry Concluding remarks Selected Bibliography for Further Reading Biographical Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Jews Europe History 19th century, Jews Europe History 20th century