{"product_id":"9780472023561","title":"The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society","description":"The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Jews of Georgian England\u003c\/i\u003e, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues that the modernization of European Jewry encompassed far more than an intellectual revolution.\u003cbr\u003e His study recounts the rise of the Anglo-Jewish elite--great commercial and financial magnates such as the Goldsmids, the Franks, Samson Gideon, and Joseph Salvador--who rapidly adopted the gentlemanly style of life of the landed class and adjusted their religious practices to harmonize with the standards of upper-class Englishmen. Similarly, the Jewish poor--peddlers, hawkers, and old-clothes men--took easily to many patterns of lower-class life, including crime, street violence, sexual promiscuity, and coarse entertainment.\u003cbr\u003e An impressive marshaling of fact and analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Jews of Georgian England\u003c\/i\u003e serves to illuminate a significant aspect of the Jewish passage to modernity.\u003cbr\u003e \"Contributes to English as well as Jewish history. . . . Every reader will learn something new about the statistics, setting or mores of Jewish life in the eighteenth century. . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Todd M. Endelman is William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eComparing Jewish Societies, Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103928467696,"sku":"9780472023561","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472023561_p0.jpg?v=1763707492","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472023561","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}