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unusual facts about European Jew



Jewish emancipation

Jewish emancipation was the external and internal process in various nations of expanding the rights of Jewish people of Europe, including recognition of rights as equal citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship to individuals.


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Arnold Zweig

In a quite literal effort to put a face to the hated 'Ostjude' (Eastern European Jew), due to their Orthodox, economically depressed, "unenlightened", "un-German" ways, Zweig published with the artist Hermann Struck Das ostjüdische Antlitz (The Face of East European Jewry) in 1920.

Max Frauenthal

Max Frauenthal's grandfather, who was called simply Meyer, adopted the name Frauenthal in early nineteenth century, when the Napoleonic Code required European Jews to take surnames.

Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt self-identifies as an Eastern European Jew, an Ashkenazi, and a Litvak.