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While the Jewish achievement of full civil equality took its course, despite severe setbacks and bitter delays, and as modernity began to include more and more Jewish communities within its scope-communities fighting against excessive adaptation to the ways of their fellow citizens and nations-the battle to grant equal stature and rights to Judaism itself had begun. Judaism had continued to retain its hold and influence in the early stages of this process, even when Jews who had made social advances and claimed citizenship strove to play down their Jewishness. Judaism's influence began to wane only when their children and grandchildren, no longer regarding it as a stay and support, soon lost all memory of a Judaism that had been the wellspring and center of an entire way of life. Without a fully enfranchised Judaism with a firm foothold on modernity's ground, and without a vibrant Jewish community able to announce in no uncertain terms that Judaism's message had become part of every area of human endeavorfor such an assertive, public Jewish presence did not yet exist-the desire to

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN