Todd M Endelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 124767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd M Endelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd M |
| FAMILY NAME | Endelman |
| SIGNATURE | ENDELMAN T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2801-6337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community, Identity, Conflict: The Jewish Experience in Ireland, 1881–1914, by Natalie Wynn
David B. Ruderman, The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar: The Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838)
Jewish Economic Mobility in the Modern World: A Reappraisal
In this article, I reexamine the historiography of the economic restratification of western Jewish communities in the modern period (roughly the eighteenth through twentieth centuries). While I acknowledge the possible influence of values and attitudes rooted in Jewish culture and tradition, I express skepticism about their explanatory power across broad historical eras. I emphasize, rather, the cumulative impact of three broad, interrelated soci…
The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman
Fighting antisemitism with numbers in early twentieth-century Britain
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain (JHOGB) and its president, Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, championed the collection and analysis of demographic data about the Anglo-Jewish community as a way to counter rising antisemitism. In this article, Endelman discusses the belief in the ability of statistical research to undermine lies and distortions about the Jews of Britain that rested on untested Enlightenment assumpti…
Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
Andy Pearce. Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain
This thoughtful but flawed account of how awareness and knowledge of the Holocaust became increasingly widespread in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century complements the late Peter Novick's provocative volume The Holocaust in American Life (1999). Andy Pearce describes in detail the political and cultural avenues by which the Holocaust gained “a prominence none could have foreseen” (p. 1). Individual chapters trace the incorporatio…
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970." Contemporary British History, 28(2), pp. 240–241
Broadening Jewish History
This book seeks to expand the horizons of modern Jewish historiography by focusing on 'ordinary' rather than exceptional Jews, arguing that what ordinary people did or felt can do more to deepen our understanding of Jewish history than what a few exceptional individuals thought and wrote. The book makes a strong case for comparative history, showing convincingly that only a comparison across national borders can identify the Germanness of German …
Anglo-Jewish Historiography and the Jewish Historiographical Mainstream
This article examines how the writing of Anglo-Jewish history became detached from the writing of modern Jewish history more generally. It suggests that the price of this isolation has been the loss of a pan—Jewish, transnational perspective with the potential, ironically, to shed light on events and trends in Anglo-Jewish history and to explain what is uniquely ‘English’ or ‘British’ about them. It also argues that this detachment has impoverish…
Aestheticism and the flight from Jewishness
Like socialism and science, aestheticism served as a programmatic rationale for the transcendence of Judaism and Jewishness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offered cultivated young Jewish men and, to a lesser extent, women a way of distancing themselves from the popular connection between Jews and the pursuit of commercial profit. This article examines the career of the Lithuanian-born art critic Bernard Berenson and his …
A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State by Chaim Gans
Jewish Ireland in the age of Joyce: A socioeconomic history - By Cormac Ó Gráda
Anglo-Jewish Scientists and the Science of Race
The belief in innate racial differences was well entrenched in Western science by the start of the twentieth century. It was widely believed that the world's population was divided into distinct races and that the physical and cultural differences among them were rooted in biology. For Jewish physicians and academics, for whom science was supposed to be a neutral arena in which their Jewishness was irrelevant, the ubiquity of this belief was a ch…
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration
In Defense of Jewish Social History
It is well known that historians rewrite the past in light of the present and that current concerns inspire the subjects they choose, the questions they ask, and often the answers they provide. However acute their self-awareness, however well developed their methodological introspection, historians cannot banish the influence of time and place and the unconscious. Thus, writing about the past is always, in Ismar Schorsch's phrase, "a refraction o…
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society
The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In The Jews of Georgian England, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues th…
The decline of the Anglo-Jewish notable
Comparing Jewish Societies
Having unfolded in the diverse communities of the diaspora, Jewish experience lends itself almost effortlessly to comparative treatment. The contributors to this volume take up the challenge, examining Jewish societies from medieval to modern times, in Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, North Africa, India, China, and the Middle East.The essays use the methodological strategies and theoretical insights of history, sociology, ant…
Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw: A Quantitative Analysis
Si on le ramene a la taille de la population juive, le nombre des convertis dans la Varsovie du XIX e siecle n'etait pas si grand. Ce qui est remarquable est la diversite des horizons sociaux des convertis. Dans la plupart des pays europeens, la conversion etait une strategie des elites. A Varsovie, on remarque qu'au contraire, les ouvriers, boutiquiers forment une bonne partie des convertis. Comme partout, on observe que le rythme des conversion…
Herbert Samuel: A Political Life. Bernard Wasserstein
Jews, aliens and other outsiders in British history
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"Endelman, "Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History
Sceptics, Millenarians, and Jews
Jews, Idols, and Messiahs: The Challenge from History. Lionel Kochan
Anglo-Jewish Scientists and the Science of Race
The belief in innate racial differences was well entrenched in Western science by the start of the twentieth century. It was widely believed that the world's population was divided into distinct races and that the physical and cultural differences among them were rooted in biology. For Jewish physicians and academics, for whom science was supposed to be a neutral arena in which their Jewishness was irrelevant, the ubiquity of this belief was a ch…
Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw: A Quantitative Analysis
Si on le ramene a la taille de la population juive, le nombre des convertis dans la Varsovie du XIX e siecle n'etait pas si grand. Ce qui est remarquable est la diversite des horizons sociaux des convertis. Dans la plupart des pays europeens, la conversion etait une strategie des elites. A Varsovie, on remarque qu'au contraire, les ouvriers, boutiquiers forment une bonne partie des convertis. Comme partout, on observe que le rythme des conversion…
English Jewish History
Journal Article ENGLISH JEWISH HISTORY Get access Todd M. Endelman Todd M. Endelman UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 1991, Pages 91–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.1.91 Published: 01 February 1991
The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience in Recent Jewish Historiography
Journal Article THE LEGITIMIZATION OF THE DIASPORA EXPERIENCE IN RECENT JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY Get access Todd M. Endelman Todd M. Endelman UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1991, Pages 195–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.2.195 Published: 01 May 1991
Jews, aliens and other outsiders in British history
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The Checkered Career of “Jew” King: A Study in Anglo-Jewish Social History
Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewish integration into European society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, most work has concentrated on public efforts to achieve acceptance and respectability—programs to modernize Jewish education, reform Jewish worship, normalize Jewish occupations, and apply critical standards and methods to Jewish scholarship. In particular, histo…
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970." Contemporary British History, 28(2), pp. 240–241
In Defense of Jewish Social History
It is well known that historians rewrite the past in light of the present and that current concerns inspire the subjects they choose, the questions they ask, and often the answers they provide. However acute their self-awareness, however well developed their methodological introspection, historians cannot banish the influence of time and place and the unconscious. Thus, writing about the past is always, in Ismar Schorsch's phrase, "a refraction o…
Liberalism, laissez-faire, and anglo-jewry, 1700–1905
The Checkered Career of “Jew” King: A Study in Anglo-Jewish Social History
Contemporary Jewish historiography has tended to ignore the private side of the struggle for Jewish integration into European society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, most work has concentrated on public efforts to achieve acceptance and respectability—programs to modernize Jewish education, reform Jewish worship, normalize Jewish occupations, and apply critical standards and methods to Jewish scholarship. In particular, histo…
Disraeli's Jewishness Reconsidered
Journal Article DISRAELI'S JEWISHNESS RECONSIDERED Get access Todd M. Endelman Todd M. Endelman INDIANA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 5, Issue 2, May 1985, Pages 109–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/5.2.109 Published: 01 May 1985
Continental Britons: German Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism . Michael A. Meyer
English Jewish History
Journal Article ENGLISH JEWISH HISTORY Get access Todd M. Endelman Todd M. Endelman UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 1991, Pages 91–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.1.91 Published: 01 February 1991
The Legitimization of the Diaspora Experience in Recent Jewish Historiography
Journal Article THE LEGITIMIZATION OF THE DIASPORA EXPERIENCE IN RECENT JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY Get access Todd M. Endelman Todd M. Endelman UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1991, Pages 195–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.2.195 Published: 01 May 1991
Sceptics, Millenarians, and Jews
Jews, Idols, and Messiahs: The Challenge from History. Lionel Kochan
Jews, aliens and other outsiders in British history
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
"Endelman, "Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History
Herbert Samuel: A Political Life. Bernard Wasserstein
Comparing Jewish Societies
Having unfolded in the diverse communities of the diaspora, Jewish experience lends itself almost effortlessly to comparative treatment. The contributors to this volume take up the challenge, examining Jewish societies from medieval to modern times, in Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, North Africa, India, China, and the Middle East.The essays use the methodological strategies and theoretical insights of history, sociology, ant…
Jewish Converts in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw: A Quantitative Analysis
Si on le ramene a la taille de la population juive, le nombre des convertis dans la Varsovie du XIX e siecle n'etait pas si grand. Ce qui est remarquable est la diversite des horizons sociaux des convertis. Dans la plupart des pays europeens, la conversion etait une strategie des elites. A Varsovie, on remarque qu'au contraire, les ouvriers, boutiquiers forment une bonne partie des convertis. Comme partout, on observe que le rythme des conversion…
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society
The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity. In The Jews of Georgian England, Todd M. Endelman challenges the Germanocentric orientation of the bulk of modern Jewish historiography and argues th…
The decline of the Anglo-Jewish notable
In Defense of Jewish Social History
It is well known that historians rewrite the past in light of the present and that current concerns inspire the subjects they choose, the questions they ask, and often the answers they provide. However acute their self-awareness, however well developed their methodological introspection, historians cannot banish the influence of time and place and the unconscious. Thus, writing about the past is always, in Ismar Schorsch's phrase, "a refraction o…
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration
Anglo-Jewish Scientists and the Science of Race
The belief in innate racial differences was well entrenched in Western science by the start of the twentieth century. It was widely believed that the world's population was divided into distinct races and that the physical and cultural differences among them were rooted in biology. For Jewish physicians and academics, for whom science was supposed to be a neutral arena in which their Jewishness was irrelevant, the ubiquity of this belief was a ch…
Jewish Ireland in the age of Joyce: A socioeconomic history - By Cormac Ó Gráda
A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State by Chaim Gans
Broadening Jewish History
This book seeks to expand the horizons of modern Jewish historiography by focusing on 'ordinary' rather than exceptional Jews, arguing that what ordinary people did or felt can do more to deepen our understanding of Jewish history than what a few exceptional individuals thought and wrote. The book makes a strong case for comparative history, showing convincingly that only a comparison across national borders can identify the Germanness of German …
Anglo-Jewish Historiography and the Jewish Historiographical Mainstream
This article examines how the writing of Anglo-Jewish history became detached from the writing of modern Jewish history more generally. It suggests that the price of this isolation has been the loss of a pan—Jewish, transnational perspective with the potential, ironically, to shed light on events and trends in Anglo-Jewish history and to explain what is uniquely ‘English’ or ‘British’ about them. It also argues that this detachment has impoverish…
Aestheticism and the flight from Jewishness
Like socialism and science, aestheticism served as a programmatic rationale for the transcendence of Judaism and Jewishness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offered cultivated young Jewish men and, to a lesser extent, women a way of distancing themselves from the popular connection between Jews and the pursuit of commercial profit. This article examines the career of the Lithuanian-born art critic Bernard Berenson and his …
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890–1970." Contemporary British History, 28(2), pp. 240–241
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