Broadening Jewish History – Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews

The major cultural, ideological and social changes that have occured in Europe in the past century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of reassessment. It points to a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextulize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.