Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

PART I: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES
1   Making Jews Modern: Jewish Self-Identification and West European Categories of Belonging
2   The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience
3   The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England
4   Welcoming Ex-Jews into the Jewish Historiographical Fold

PART II: COMPARISONS
5   The Social and Political Context of Conversion in Germany and England
6   Jewish Self-Hatred in Germany and England
7   German Jews in Victorian England

PART III: MARGINAL JEWS
8   The Chequered Career of ‘Jew’ King
9   The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness
10   Disraeli and the Myth of Sephardi Superiority
11   The Impact of the Converso Experience on English Sephardim
12   The Frankaus of London
13   Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw
14   Memories of Jewishness

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

Reviews'One of the world's leading authorities on the history of European and specifically of British Jewry . . . This volume is subtitled Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews thereby charting directions others must take if such social histories are ever to be written. The raw material is there, but discovering its location and divining its meaning are no easy tasks. Endelman has provided a guidebook and a manual.'
Geoffrey Alderman, Jewish Chronicle