By Frederic Cople Jaher
This booklet is the 1st systematic comparability of the civic integration of Jews within the usa and France--specifically, from the 2 international locations' revolutions during the American republic and the Napoleonic period (1775-1815). Frederic Jaher develops a car for a broader and uniquely wealthy research of French and American nation-building and political tradition. He returns grand thought to ancient scholarship via reading the Jewish come upon with kingdom formation and Jewish acquisition of civic equality from the point of view of the "paradigm of liberal inclusiveness" as formulated by means of Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis Hartz.
Jaher argues that the liberal paradigm labored for American Jews yet that France's intolerant impulses hindered its Jewish inhabitants in buying complete civic rights. He additionally explores the relevance of the Tocqueville-Hartz idea for different marginalized teams, relatively blacks and girls in France and the US. in spite of the fact that, the event of those teams means that the idea has its limits.
A valuable factor of this penetrating learn is whether or not a country with democratic-liberal pretensions (America) can greater shield the rights of marginalized enclaves than can a nation with authoritarian traits (France). The Tocqueville-Hartz thesis has turn into a tremendous factor in political technology, and this publication marks the 1st time it's been established in a old examine. The Jews and the Nation returns a unifying concept to a self-discipline fragmented via microtopical scholarship.
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