Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. The ‘Underground History’ of Europe: Elias’s Central Thesis

   • Steven Russell

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3. Another ‘Underground History’: Elias and European Jewry Prior to Emancipation

   • Steven Russell

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4. Removing the ‘Civic Barrier’: Political and Legal Aspects of Jewish Emancipation

   • Steven Russell

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5. ‘Bending to the Constraints of Interdependence’: Personal Dimensions of Jewish Emancipation

   • Steven Russell

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6. Elias and the German Cultural Crisis I: The Crisis

   • Steven Russell

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7. Elias and the German Cultural Crisis II: A Process-sociological Perspective

   • Steven Russell

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8. Norbert Elias and the German-Jewish Synthesis

   • Steven Russell

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9. Back Matter

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Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes examines the history of Jewish experience in Western Europe, from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, using the sociological theory and method of Norbert Elias. Attention is focused on the notion of interdependence and the intertwining processes of the civilization of behaviour and character and the formation of modern states as these specifically affected Jewry and help to shed light on the problem of anti-Semitism.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Europe
• history
• Judaism

• University College, Dublin, Ireland

  Stephen Mennell

• Monash University, Australia

  Steven Russell

STEVEN RUSSELL

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