Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Neumann, Victor
Year: 2010
Title: Judaic religious reform and political emancipation of the Jews in Banat region
Journal: Studia Judaica
Issue: 18
Pages: 127-193
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, emancipation, religion, Catholic Church, politics, interethnic relationships, elites, assimilation, tolerance
Abstract: (En) The theme refers to a long and intense rabbinical debate concerning the mosaic
religious reform and its relationship with the process of Jewish emancipation in Banat and in Central Europe. I have taken into account the movement to which Aron Chorin, the well-
known rabbi of Arad, would integrate through its works and actions. His contributions would stimulate the opening of the Central European Jewish communi ties to civism,
integration and/or assimilation. On the other hand, I have considered the vanguard ideas content in the brochure entitled "The Emancipation of the Jews in Hungary" written by count
József Eötvös and published in both Hungarian and Italian in 1842. Although seldom encountered at the time, the well-informed and intelligent evaluation of Eötvös,
concerns Jewishness and the complex historical relationship of the Christians with the Jews. It represented a first fundamental change in the history of political thinking in Central and Eastern Europe, accepting and emphasizing the importance of Jewish emancipation. Both the religious and the laic move ments generated by distinct intellectual milieus had become complementary through their outcomes within the intellectual history and the history of political thinking during the 19th century. Often, they highlighted the role of the trans border regions where the Banat used to be one of the most fruitful experimental spaces of Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries as far as the elaboration and processing of the modernizing European ideas were concerned.
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