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10 statements
01Evidence and context
The Alliance Israelite Universelle was founded in Paris in 1860 under Cremieux's leadership.
Its school network reached 183 institutions and 43,700 pupils, from Morocco through Iran.
Alliance education for girls expanded Jewish women's mobility and status.
Jewish philanthropy shifted from local charity toward professionally managed international networks.
British, Viennese, and German associations followed the Alliance model.
The Jewish Colonization Association funded Moisesville in Argentina beginning in 1889.
In 1880, Palestine had about 25,000 Jews, mostly poor and religious.
Civil organizations in Germany and the United States fought defamation through media and courts.
Bertha Pappenheim founded the League of Jewish Women in 1904.
The League fought sexual trafficking, pursued women's communal participation, and offered vocational training.
Context
Alliance education for girls expanded Jewish women's mobility and status.
Jewish philanthropy shifted from local charity toward professionally managed international networks.
British, Viennese, and German associations followed the Alliance model.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 03Historiography
What scholars debate
Scholarly debate · 01
How did international crises change Jewish collective action?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
Persistent vulnerability
The authors' assessment
Damascus and Mortara exposed Jewish vulnerability before authorities.
- B
New advocacy capacity
The authors' assessment
Press, diplomacy, and philanthropy created international instruments.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Aron Rodrigue, French Jews, Turkish Jews: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey, 1860-1925 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
The Alliance and schooling · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 377
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 368inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 369inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 371inspect
- 10Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 371inspect
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