Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews'One of the world's leading authorities on the history of European and specifically of British Jewry . . . This volume is subtitled Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews thereby charting directions others must take if such social histories are ever to be written. The raw material is there, but discovering its location and divining its meaning are no easy tasks. Endelman has provided a guidebook and a manual.'Geoffrey Alderman, Jewish Chronicle

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionPART I: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES1 Making Jews Modern: Jewish Self-Identification and West European Categories of Belonging2 The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience3 The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England4 Welcoming Ex-Jews into the Jewish Historiographical FoldPART II: COMPARISONS5 The Social and Political Context of Conversion in Germany and England6 Jewish Self-Hatred in Germany and England7 German Jews in Victorian EnglandPART III: MARGINAL JEWS8 The Chequered Career of ‘Jew’ King9 The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness10 Disraeli and the Myth of Sephardi Superiority11 The Impact of the Converso Experience on English Sephardim12 The Frankaus of London13 Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw14 Memories of JewishnessBibliographyIndex

Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews'One of the world's leading authorities on the history of European and specifically of British Jewry . . . This volume is subtitled Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews thereby charting directions others must take if such social histories are ever to be written. The raw material is there, but discovering its location and divining its meaning are no easy tasks. Endelman has provided a guidebook and a manual.'Geoffrey Alderman, Jewish Chronicle

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionPART I: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES1 Making Jews Modern: Jewish Self-Identification and West European Categories of Belonging2 The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience3 The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England4 Welcoming Ex-Jews into the Jewish Historiographical FoldPART II: COMPARISONS5 The Social and Political Context of Conversion in Germany and England6 Jewish Self-Hatred in Germany and England7 German Jews in Victorian EnglandPART III: MARGINAL JEWS8 The Chequered Career of ‘Jew’ King9 The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness10 Disraeli and the Myth of Sephardi Superiority11 The Impact of the Converso Experience on English Sephardim12 The Frankaus of London13 Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw14 Memories of JewishnessBibliographyIndex

Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews'One of the world's leading authorities on the history of European and specifically of British Jewry . . . This volume is subtitled Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews thereby charting directions others must take if such social histories are ever to be written. The raw material is there, but discovering its location and divining its meaning are no easy tasks. Endelman has provided a guidebook and a manual.'Geoffrey Alderman, Jewish Chronicle

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionPART I: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES1 Making Jews Modern: Jewish Self-Identification and West European Categories of Belonging2 The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience3 The Englishness of Jewish Modernity in England4 Welcoming Ex-Jews into the Jewish Historiographical FoldPART II: COMPARISONS5 The Social and Political Context of Conversion in Germany and England6 Jewish Self-Hatred in Germany and England7 German Jews in Victorian EnglandPART III: MARGINAL JEWS8 The Chequered Career of ‘Jew’ King9 The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness10 Disraeli and the Myth of Sephardi Superiority11 The Impact of the Converso Experience on English Sephardim12 The Frankaus of London13 Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw14 Memories of JewishnessBibliographyIndex