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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and be

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Author

SpringerLink (Online service);Heschel, Susannah

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691167749

Category

history

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25