PSYCH356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jewish Virtual Library, Haskalah, Orthodox Judaism
27 Sep 2016
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emancipation of the jews meant that some jews (that is, some jewish men) gained the right to vote, and could become part of social life, if slowly. Emancipation, however, was not emancipatory for all of europe"s jews, never mind for jews from north african or middle eastern lands. Still, the possibility that jews could become a part of the european societies in which they lived, was a reversal of many hundreds of years of jewish life in europe. emancipation, in the words of one of the great historians of modern jewish life, h. h. Ben-sasson: was a social contract that granted equal rights to jews who, in turn, pledged to reshape themselves and their religion in ways that would make them worthy of citizenship, acculturating themselves to the society in which they lived. emancipation is certainly a word with a deeply positive value attached to it. It implies freedom, liberty, and the abolishment of slavery.
