The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture

by Lois C. Dubin

This book offers an important new perspective on the process of Jewish integration in modern Europe. Heretofore, discussions of Jewish culture and politics in the eighteenth centry have emphasized enlightenment in Berlin and emphasized emancipation in Paris. In this study, the author addresses the Habsburg Mondarchy, which contained the largest Jewish Population in Europe outside Russia, by focusing on the free port of Trieste, at the crossroads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804776032
• ISBN13: 9780804776035
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"