Todd Endelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 525861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Endelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Endelman |
| SIGNATURE | ENDELMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI United States |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5079-728X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Community, Identity, Conflict
Jewish Economic Mobility in the Modern World
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…
Leaving the Jewish Fold
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…
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830
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…
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…
Response to Modernity
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Response to Modernity
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…
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830
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…
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…
Leaving the Jewish Fold
Jewish Economic Mobility in the Modern World
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…
Community, Identity, Conflict
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (7 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish studies (3 works) · Jews (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works)