Leaving the Jewish Fold —— Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History

----- 离开犹太褶皱：现代犹太历史上的转换和激进的同化

ISBN: 9780691004792 出版年：2015 页码：439 Endelman, Todd Princeton University Press

Between the french revolution and world war ii, hundreds of thousands of jews left the jewish fold--by becoming christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, leaving the jewish fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from judaism in europe and america from the eighteenth century to today. Arguing that religious conviction was rarely a motive for jews who became christians, todd endelman shows that those who severed their jewish ties were driven above all by pragmatic concerns--especially the desire to escape the stigma of jewishness and its social, occupational, and emotional burdens. Through a detailed and colorful narrative, endelman considers the social settings, national contexts, and historical circumstances that encouraged jews to abandon judaism, and factors that worked to the opposite effect.