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Title: Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

Synopsis
For half a millennium the Jews of Europe were confined to ghettos and remote villages. Then, in the aftermath of Napoleon Bonaparte, they were suddenly free to mingle with the rest of the population, and subsequently began to provide great contributions to the economic, intellectual, and cultural renaissances of the 19th and 20th centuries. Acclaimed radio broadcaster Michael Goldfarb examines this golden age in Jewish life and culture, and tells the stories of its many famous figures--Einstein, Proust, Marx--as well as other lesser known but equally fascinating Jewish individuals of the era. EMANCIPATION is wonderfully researched and written book that illuminates the suddenly altered world as Jews moved from the fringes of society into the center of European culture.

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Language:        English

Size
Length:        408 Pages
Weight:        1.5 Pounds
Height:         9.5 Inches
Width:          6.5 Inches
Thickness:    1.5 Inches



Publisher Notes
The author offers the first popular history of the emancipation of Europe's Jews in the 18th and 19th centuries--a transformation that was startling to those that lived through it and continues to affect the world today.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance and it was written by Michael Goldfarb. This edition of Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is November 2009 and it has a suggested retail price of $30. There are 408 pages in the book and it was published by Simon & Schuster. The 10 digit ISBN is 1416547967 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781416547969. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.