{"product_id":"rites-and-passages-the-beginnings-of-modern-jewish-culture-in-france-16501860-jewish-culture-and-contexts-9780812220087","title":"Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France  1650-1860 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn September 1791  two years after the Revolution  French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages  Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious treatment of Jewish emancipation can ignore the cultural history of the Jews during the ancien rgime. It was during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that several lasting paradigms emerged within the Jewish communityincluding the distinction between rural and urban communities  the formation of a strong lay leadership  heightened divisions between popular and elite religion  and the strain between local and regional identities. Each of these developments reflected the growing tension between tradition and modernity before the tumultuous events of the French Revolution.  Rites and Passages emphasizes the resilience of religious tradition during periods of social and political turbulence. Viewing French Jewish history through the lens of ritual  Berkovitz describes the struggles of the French Jewish minority to maintain its cultural distinctiveness while also participating in the larger social and economic matrix. In the ancien rgime  ritual systems were a formative element in the traditional worldview and served as a crucial repository of memories and values. After the Revolution  ritual signaled changes in the way Jews related to the state  French society  and French culture. In the cities especially  ritual assumed a performative function that dramatized the epoch-making changes of the day. The terms and concepts of the Jewish religious tradition thus remained central to the discourse of modernization and played a powerful role in helping French Jews interpret the diverse meanings and implications of emancipation.  Introducing new and previously unused primary sources  Rites and Passages offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666251014197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812220080","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812220087.jpg?v=1782425096","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rites-and-passages-the-beginnings-of-modern-jewish-culture-in-france-16501860-jewish-culture-and-contexts-9780812220087","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}