Medieval Documents On The Jews In The Romanian Principalities As Reflected In The Jewish Press
Medieval Documents On The Jews In The Romanian Principalities As Reflected In The Jewish Press

Summary/Abstract: "To the European Jews, the 19th century brought a paradox: the concept of liberal democracy, which began to win ground especially after 1848, supported Jewish emancipation, but at the same time, sustained the nationalistic ideology which legitimized the claims of the new founded states on the one hand, and inaugurated a new era of persecutions in the name of the same national values on the other. Likewise, emancipation itself proved to be a surface phenomenon, with deep consequences that affected primarily the Jewish intellectuals, who saw themselves excluded from the academic life. Their impossible return to the traditional environment and their similarly impossible assertion as Jewish intellectuals led them to believe that emancipation would not be complete without a re-evaluation of their own identity. "[...]

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