01:510:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnic Nationalism, National Democracy, Roman Dmowski
28 Mar 2017
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Note: next essay due first tuesday after spring break (topic posted this thursday) All nationalist movements in america they wrestle with the idea if jews can be a part of this. Relationship between jews and christians background: jews were defined as jews by law (body of law specific to jews) Governed what types of job they can have. Governed where they could life (spatially defined) Jews marked by religion and language (yiddish: ^ culturally, legally, linguistically, economically and socially separated, laws on occupations shifted jews to specific jobs (often managers, moneylending, trading, taverns, etc. ^ reinforced to society that jews were separate: ^ this begins to change around end of 1700"s = due to the. Civic equality: implications for relationship between christians and jews possibility for the relation to change and the strong legal/social wall that separated them to fall. Possibility for jews to be emancipated from traditional restraints.
