Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870

Out of the Ghetto is an account of the developing interrelationship between the Jews and their Gentile environment unique in its breadth and objectivity. He presents the story of Jewish emancipation as a whole, from both Jewish and non-Jewish points of view. If the results of the Jewish emancipation process differed from country to country, the forces effecting the changes were identical-the upheaval of the French Revolution, the loosening of bonds between church and state, and the ideas of...