The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture

Description: The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste by Lois C. Dubin This book offers an important new perspective on the process of Jewish integration in modern Europe. Heretofore, discussions of Jewish culture and politics in the eighteenth centry have emphasized enlightenment in Berlin and emphasized emancipation in Paris. In this study, the author addresses the Habsburg Mondarchy, which contained the largest Jewish Population in Europe outside Russia, by focusing on the free port of Trieste, at the crossroads of Central Europe, Italy, and the Levant. In this dynamic port city, mercantilist state-building, enlightenment absolutism, multicultural diversity, and Italian Jewish traditions produced a path toward integration that is generally ignored in modern Jewish history: that of acculturated merchants in commercial centers.The book provides an in-depth study of enlightened absolutism in action-of the way rulers, officials, and subjects negotiated and implemented policies. It shows both maria Theresa and Joseph II as pragmatic state-builders who developed new policies of toleration for Jews and other religious minorities. The book also emphasizes the commitment by Trieste Jews to the new norms of acculturation, enlightenment, and civil inclusion-in contrast to the wariness expressed by other European Jews to enlighteneed absolutist programs of societal transformation.The author seeks to counter the usual teleological readings of eighteenth-century Jewish history that sees civil-political improvement only in terms of the French Revolutions granting of legal emancipation. The example of Habsburg Trieste demonstrates the possibility and parameters of change within an Old Regime corporate-estates society and state, under which most Jews lived through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Lois C. Dubin is Professor of Religion and Biblical Literature at Smith College. Review "Dubins brilliant study of the cosmopolitan entrepot of goods and peoples that was Trieste breaks new ground in our understanding of Jewish life in Old Regime Europe. It demonstrates with exacting detail the extensive privileges such port Jews enjoyed and the effect enlightened absolutist and emancipation politics exercised upon them, while skillfully portraying the Jews political and cultural responses. It is a classic study in modern Jewish history." - David Sorkin,University of Wisconsin, Madison Long Description This book offers an important new perspective on the process of Jewish integration in modern Europe. Heretofore, discussions of Jewish culture and politics in the eighteenth centry have emphasized enlightenment in Berlin and emphasized emancipation in Paris. In this study, the author addresses the Habsburg Mondarchy, which contained the largest Jewish Population in Europe outside Russia, by focusing on the free port of Trieste, at the crossroads of Central Europe, Italy, and the Levant. In this dynamic port city, mercantilist state-building, enlightenment absolutism, multicultural diversity, and Italian Jewish traditions produced a path toward integration that is generally ignored in modern Jewish history: that of acculturated merchants in commercial centers. The book provides an in-depth study of enlightened absolutism in action--of the way rulers, officials, and subjects negotiated and implemented policies. It shows both maria Theresa and Joseph II as pragmatic state-builders who developed new policies of toleration for Jews and other religious minorities. The book also emphasizes the commitment by Trieste Jews to the new norms of acculturation, enlightenment, and civil inclusion--in contrast to the wariness expressed by other European Jews to enlighteneed absolutist programs of societal transformation. The author seeks to counter the usual teleological readings of eighteenth-century Jewish history that sees civil-political improvement only in terms of the French Revolutions granting of legal emancipation. The example of Habsburg Trieste demonstrates the possibility and parameters of change within an Old Regime corporate-estates society and state, under which most Jews lived through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Review Quote "Dubins brilliant study of the cosmopolitan entrep Details ISBN0804776032 Short Title PORT JEWS OF HABSBURG TRIESTE Pages 352 Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804776032 ISBN-13 9780804776035 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2011-01-01 DEWEY 945/.393004924 UK Release Date 2011-01-01 AU Release Date 2011-01-01 NZ Release Date 2011-01-01 US Release Date 2011-01-01 Author Lois C. Dubin Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Alternative 9780804733205 Audience General Illustrations 9 illustrations, 2 maps We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159348050;

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