LEADER 04904nam 2200889 a 450 001 9910808039603321 005 20240418022510.0 010 $a1-283-21063-0 010 $a9786613210630 010 $a0-8122-0015-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200157 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051234 035 $a(OCoLC)759158274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649608 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380969 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649608 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10608482 035 $a(PQKB)10990273 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3223 035 $a(DE-B1597)448876 035 $a(OCoLC)979910366 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441574 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492031 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321063 035 $a(OCoLC)824104043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441574 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051234 100 $a20040408d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRites and passages$b[electronic resource] $ethe beginnings of modern Jewish culture in France, 1650-1860 /$fJay R. Berkovitz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia [Pa.] $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 225 1 $aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aFirst paperback edition 2007. 311 $a0-8122-2008-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-319) and index. 327 $a1. Leadership, community, and ritual in the Ancien Re?gime -- 2. Revolution, Re?ge?ne?ration, and emancipation -- 3. Transformations in Jewish self-understanding. 330 $aIn 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. 410 0$aJewish culture and contexts. 606 $aJews$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aJews$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aJews$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJews$zFrance$xLiturgy$xHistory 606 $aJews$zFrance$xIdentity 606 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zFrance 606 $aJews$zFrance$xSocial life and customs 606 $aReligion and culture$zFrance 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xLiturgy$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aJews$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aJews$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aReligion and culture 676 $a944/.004924 700 $aBerkovitz$b Jay R.$f1951-$01171727 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808039603321 996 $aRites and passages$93957742 997 $aUNINA