What is it about?
The article explores the conceptualization of Jews as a nation and not merely as a religious minority. It compares the German conservatives' and liberals' discourse on this topic during most of the nineteenth century, and introduces the contesting concepts regarding the Jews' emancipation.
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The articles reveals a new understanding of Judaism as a nation, mainly by conservatives, who hitherto were treated in the historiography as opponents of emancipation due to religious reasons only.
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Unlike other discussions of nineteenth century German conservatism, my article reveals how conservatives accommodated nationalism already at the first half of the nineteenth century, and not after 1871 as usually argued. The article shows how these conservatives conceptualized Judaism as an admixture of religion and nationalism – the same criteria by which conservatives defined the German nation.
Dr. Doron Avraham
Bar Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: The idea of a Jewish nation in the German discourse about emancipation, Nations and Nationalism, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nana.12160.
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