Integration and Survival
Charles S. Liebman
1973
Jewish identity in the preemancipation period assumed essentially one of two forms—religion or communalism. Each in its own way was a break with tradition. Each was predicated on acceptance of the surrounding society’s values and a desire for acceptance by the surrounding society. But whether Jews or Jewish communities chose the religious or the…
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