Second Midterm Study-Guide
General Instructions:
General Concepts:
Consider the circumstances and the implications of the Enlightenment on the changing definitions of anti-Semitism. How and why did the Jews cease to be a Ôminority by choice.Ő What was the main dividing factor between Jews and non-Jews before the Enlightenment? What was it by the 19th century?
Consider the Emancipation from the position of both the Jews and the Christian West. Who supported it and why? Who opposed it and why?
Consider the different environmental factors and their role in the development of Haskala in the Eastern and Western Europe.
What was the role of Hasidism in the development of Eastern European Jewry? Discuss it in the context of the traditional Jewish community and the advent of modernity.
Significant
Personalities, Locations, Themes.
Reform Judaism
Conservative Judaism
Hasidism
Count de Clermont-Tonnere
Consistoire
1787 Metz Essay Contest
Israel Baal Shem Tov
Zaddik
Orthodoxy
Assembly of Notables
Grand Sanhedrin
Nicholas I
Alexander II
Berr Isaac Berr
Zacharias Frankel
Declaration of Rights of Man
FJA Hell
Napoleon Bonaparte
Historical Positivism
Edict of Emancipation, Sept 3, 1791
Gaon of Vilna
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Abbe Gregoire
Lachrymose interpretation of Jewish history