Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History (Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism)

“This is a timely contribution to some of the most pressing debates facing scholars of Jewish Studies today. It forces us to re-think standard approaches to both antisemitism and liberalism. Its geographic scope offers a model for how scholars can “provincialize” Europe and engage in a transnational approach to Jewish history. The book crackles with intellectual energy; it is truly a pleasure to read.”- Jessica M. Marglin, University of Southern California, USA Green and Levis Sullam have assembled a collection of original, and provocative essays that, in illuminating the historic relationship between Jews and liberalism, transform our understanding of liberalism itself. - Derek Penslar, Harvard University, USA “This book offers a strikingly new account of Liberalism’s relationship to Jews. Previous scholarship stressed that Liberalism had to overcome its abivalence in order to achieve a principled stand on granting Jews rights and equality. This volume asserts, through multiple examples, that Liberalism excluded many groups, including Jews, so that the exclusion of Jews was indeed integral to Liberalism and constitutive for it. This is an important volume, with a challenging argument for the present moment.”- David Sorkin, Yale University, USA The emancipatory promise of liberalism – and its exclusionary qualities – shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire. Yet historians have mostly understood the relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism as a European story, defined by the collapse of liberalism and the Holocaust. This volume challenges that perspective by taking a global approach. It takes account of recent historical work that explores issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, but which has done so without taking much account of Jews. Individual essays explore how liberalism, citizenship, nationality, gender, religion, race functioned differently in European Jewish heartlands, in the Mediterranean peripheries of Spain and the Ottoman empire, and in the North American Atlantic world. Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: Towards a Twenty-First-Century History Globalizing the Dialectics of Inclusion Recontextualizing Liberalism and the Jews Crossroads of Liberalism and the Jewish Experience Jews and/beyond the Nation, Jews in/beyond Europe Bibliography Part I: The Limits of Liberalism Chapter 2: Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries Antisemitism in Romania The Algerian Antijuifs Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 3: Osman Bey’s The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): A Liberal Antisemitism? Antisemitic Pamphleteer and Militant Liberal Founding Modern Conspirationism: La conquête du monde par les Juifs The Cultural and Intellectual Sources of Osman Bey’s La Conquête Osman Bey and the Jews: A Liberal Antisemitism? Bibliography Chapter 4: Jews and Other Others Jews and Other Others: What We Know and What We Miss The Uses and Pitfalls of Discussing Jewish Power and Privilege Toward a New History of Jews and Other Others Bibliography Part II: Living Liberalism Chapter 5: The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution Fashion, Citizenship, and Race Fabric Tailoring Clothing, Emancipation, Liberalism Bibliography Chapter 6: Liberalism, Antisemitism and Everyday Life in Vienna: The Tragic Case of Heinrich Jaques (1831–94) Becoming a Jewish Liberal: Thinking and Living in Mid-Century Vienna Life as a Liberal, Jewish Politician in Vienna, 1879–94 Conclusion: A Lasting Legacy? Bibliography Chapter 7: Giving and Dying in Liberal Italy: Jewish Men and Women in Italian Culture Wars Living the Secular Giving and Dying Shades of Chiaroscuro Bibliography Part III: Rethinking East-West Chapter 8: Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad Spanish Liberals and Jews Re-encounter Sepharad Spanish Liberals Look towards Sepharad in the Wake of Catastrophe Bibliography Chapter 9: A Model Millet? Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire Cooperative Citizenship Competitive Citizenship Convergences Bibliography Chapter 10: From East to West: As the Liberal Melting Pot of Jewish Politics Max Lilienthal: From Riga to Cincinnati Emma Lazarus’ “New World Colossus” Israel Zangwill and the “melting pot” Jews and the Making of American Liberalism Bibliography Part IV: Liberalism, Empire, Zionism Chapter 11: Who Introduced Liberalism into the Damascus Affair (1840)? Center, Periphery and Networks in the Jewish Response to the Blood Libel Jewish Economic Elites in Syria c.1840 The Blood Libel Affair Weakness and Power in the Jewish Leadership The Network of the Port Jews Goes into Action Liberalism and the Jewish Levant in the New Age of Empire Bibliography Chapter 12: A Jewish “Liberal” in Istanbul: Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Young Turks and the Zionist Press Network, 1908–1911 The Jabotinsky Plan The Zionist Press-Complex and Le Jeune Turc The Winter of Troubles The Unionist Parallax, Zionism, Liberalism and Nationalism Bibliography Archives Newspapers Other Sources Chapter 13: Jews, Imperial Liberalism, and the Predicament of “Small Nations”: Lewis B. Namier’s Gentry Nationalism The Idea of Greater Britain Meddling in the Middle Third Empire or Third Temple? Bibliography Part V: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Liberalism Chapter 14: 1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution 1848: Jews in the Politics of Liberal Revolution At Home and Abroad: Jews in the Midcentury Politics of Liberal Interventionism The fin-de-siècle: Jewish Liberals and the Revolutionary Legacy Bibliography Chapter 15: “A Certain Type of Liberalism”: Minority Rights in Jewish Liberal Discourse, 1848–1948 The Birth of Minority Rights in 1848 In Search of “True Liberalism”: The Postwar Paradigm From Minority Rights to Human Rights Latter-Day Legacies Bibliography Archives Bibliography Chapter 16: The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism The Liberal Networks Intellectual Profile The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism Jewish Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Religion and Modernity: The Jewish Limits of Cold War Liberalism Bibliography Chapter 17: Afterword Bibliography Index This is a timely contribution to some of the most pressing debates facing scholars of Jewish Studies today. It forces us to re-think standard approaches to both antisemitism and liberalism. Its geographic scope offers a model for how scholars can ?provincialize? Europe and engage in a transnational approach to Jewish history. The book crackles with intellectual energy; it is truly a pleasure to read.?- Jessica M. Marglin, University of Southern California, USA0Green and Levis Sullam have assembled a collection of original, and provocative essays that, in illuminating the historic relationship between Jews and liberalism, transform our understanding of liberalism itself. - Derek Penslar, Harvard University, USA0?This book offers a strikingly new account of Liberalism?s relationship to Jews. Previous scholarship stressed that Liberalism had to overcome its abivalence in order to achieve a principled stand on granting Jews rights and equality. This volume asserts, through multiple examples, that Liberalism excluded many groups, including Jews, so that the exclusion of Jews was indeed integral to Liberalism and constitutive for it. This is an important volume, with a challenging argument for the present moment.?- David Sorkin, Yale University, USA0The emancipatory promise of liberalism ? and its exclusionary qualities ? shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire. Yet historians have mostly understood the relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism as a European story, defined by the collapse of liberalism and the Holocaust. This volume challenges that perspective by taking a global approach. It takes account of recent historical work that explores issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, but which has done so without taking much account of Jews. Individual essays explore how liberalism, citizenship, nationality, gender, religion, race functioned differently in European Jewish heartlands, in the Mediterranean peripheries of Spain and the Ottoman empire, and in the North American Atlantic world