LEADER 04036nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910825378003321 005 20230721010206.0 010 $a0-8014-6164-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461644 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036247 035 $a(OCoLC)732957091 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468009 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535400 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535400 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522886 035 $a(PQKB)11118977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138130 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28825 035 $a(DE-B1597)535289 035 $a(OCoLC)1129148745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461644 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138130 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468009 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036247 100 $a20070313d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContested rituals$b[electronic resource] $ecircumcision, kosher butchering, and Jewish political life in Germany, 1843-1933 /$fRobin Judd 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 283 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4545-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Rituals, identities, and politics -- The circumcision questions in the German-speaking lands, 1843-1857 -- German unification, emancipation, and the "ritual questions" -- The radicalization of the ritual questions, 1880-1916 -- "The disgrace of our century!" : circumcision, kosher butchering, and modern German politics -- The Scha?chtfragen and Jewish political behavior -- A "renaissance" for the ritual questions? : the ritual debates of the Weimar Republic. 330 $aIn Contested Rituals, Robin Judd shows that circumcision and kosher butchering became focal points of political struggle among the German state, its municipal governments, Jews, and Gentiles. In 1843, some German-Jewish fathers refused to circumcise their sons, prompting their Jewish communities to reconsider their standards for membership. Nearly a century later, in 1933, another blood ritual, kosher butchering, served as a political and cultural touchstone when the Nazis built upon a decades-old controversy concerning the practice and prohibited it.In describing these events and related controversies that raged during the intervening years, Judd explores the nature and escalation of the ritual debates as they transcended the boundaries of the local Jewish community to include non-Jews who sought to protect, restrict, or prohibit these rites. Judd argues that the ritual debates grew out of broad shifts in German politics: the competition between local and regional authority following unification, the possibility of government intervention in private affairs, the place of religious difference in the modern age, and the relationship of the German state to its religious and ethnic minorities, including Catholics. Anti-Semitism was only one factor driving the debates and it often functioned in unexpected ways. Judd gives us a new understanding of the formation of German political systems, the importance of religious practices to Jewish political leadership, the interaction of Jews with the German government, and the reaction of Germans of all faiths to political change. 606 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1800-1933 606 $aJudaism$zGermany$xCustoms and practices 606 $aCircumcision$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aShehitah 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism$xCustoms and practices. 615 0$aCircumcision$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aShehitah. 676 $a305.892/404309034 700 $aJudd$b Robin$01641504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825378003321 996 $aContested rituals$93985676 997 $aUNINA