Berkovitz Jay R (54 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition. Minor wear. Light soiling to outside page edge. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Pbk. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. 1994. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. 1994. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Trivial rubbing to the edges and corners. Dj is now protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Condition: FINE. 1994. 2nd printing. Trade paperback. 308pp. Index. FINE.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws, clean, tightly bound, no writing or markings.; viii-333pp., examines the resilience of jewish culture through the social and political turmoil during 200 years of french history. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of 1789 came the collapse of the social, political, and philosophical foundations of exclusiveness, forcing French society and the Jews to come to terms with the meaning of emancipation. Over time, the enormous challenge that emancipation posed for traditional Jewish beliefs became evident. In the 1830s, a more comprehensive ideology of regeneration emerged through the efforts of younger Jewish scholars and intellectuals. A response to the social and religious implications of emancipation, it was characterized by the demand for the elimination of rituals that violated the French conceptions of civilization and social integration; a drive for greater administrative centralization; and the quest for inter-communal and ethnic unity. In its various elements, regeneration formed a distinct ideology of emancipation that was designed to mediate Jewish interaction with French society and culture.Jay Berkovitz reveals the complexities inherent in the processes of emancipation and modernization, focusing on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity. All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatment of Jewish emancipation can ignore the cultural history of the Jews during the ancien rÉgime. It was during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that several lasting paradigms emerged within the Jewish community-including the distinction between rural and urban communities, the formation of a strong lay leadership, heightened divisions between popular and elite religion, and the strain between local and regional identities. Each of these developments reflected the growing tension between tradition and modernity before the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. Rites and Passages emphasizes the resilience of religious tradition during periods of social and political turbulence. Viewing French Jewish history through the lens of ritual, Berkovitz describes the struggles of the French Jewish minority to maintain its cultural distinctiveness while also participating in the larger social and economic matrix. In the ancien rÉgime, ritual systems were a formative element in the traditional worldview and served as a crucial repository of memories and values. After the Revolution, ritual signaled changes in the way Jews related to the state, French society, and French culture. In the cities especially, ritual assumed a performative function that dramatized the epoch-making changes of the day. The terms and concepts of the Jewish religious tradition thus remained central to the discourse of modernization and played a powerful role in helping French Jews interpret the diverse meanings and implications of emancipation. Introducing new and previously unused primary sources, Rites and Passages offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. This is the story of the Jews in post-revolutionary France. It reveals the complexities inherent in the process of Jewish emancipation and modernisation and focuses on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity. /// This is a 1st edition paperback in new condition. (308 pages).…

Condition: New. 2007. Paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some (Hebrew) writing to front flyleaf. Otherwise, very clean and bright with sound binding. 308 pgs.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 312 pages. 9.25x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. 2007. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 344 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatment of Jewish emancipation can ignore the cultural history of the Jews during the ancien rÉgime. It was during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that several lasting paradigms emerged within the Jewish community-including the distinction between rural and urban communities, the formation of a strong lay leadership, heightened divisions between popular and elite religion, and the strain between local and regional identities. Each of these developments reflected the growing tension between tradition and modernity before the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. Rites and Passages emphasizes the resilience of religious tradition during periods of social and political turbulence. Viewing French Jewish history through the lens of ritual, Berkovitz describes the struggles of the French Jewish minority to maintain its cultural distinctiveness while also participating in the larger social and economic matrix. In the ancien rÉgime, ritual systems were a formative element in the traditional worldview and served as a crucial repository of memories and values. After the Revolution, ritual signaled changes in the way Jews related to the state, French society, and French culture. In the cities especially, ritual assumed a performative function that dramatized the epoch-making changes of the day. The terms and concepts of the Jewish religious tradition thus remained central to the discourse of modernization and played a powerful role in helping French Jews interpret the diverse meanings and implications of emancipation. Introducing new and previously unused primary sources, Rites and Passages offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity. …