Jewish history in early modern and modern Europe as a history of migrations
- The article describes the history of Jews in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages until the aftermath of the Second World War as a sequence of migrational processes. It thereby demonstrates how the migration paradigm can contribute to a comprehensive understanding of European Jewish history during the given period by better explaining the various types of settlement, as well as other central phenomena of Jewish existence, such as inclusion/exclusion, assimilation/acculturation, and anti-Semitism. The article tries to assess the significance of the "religious factor" within the complex interdependencies between so-called "push" and "pull" factors that determined the individual migrations. In most cases, religious motives played only a minor role, while economic factors tended to dominate, particularly in regard to the functions Jews, as members of a minority, were permitted to carry out in the context of non-Jewish majority societies.
Author details: | Thomas BrechenmacherGND |
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ISSN: | 0018-2621 |
Title of parent work (German): | Historisches Jahrbuch |
Publisher: | Alber |
Place of publishing: | Freiburg Breisgau |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Volume: | 135 |
Number of pages: | 19 |
First page: | 27 |
Last Page: | 45 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
Peer review: | Referiert |