EMANCIPATION AND TEMPTATION TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY IN MOLDOVA DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
EMANCIPATION AND TEMPTATION TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY IN MOLDOVA DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The Haskalah movement catalyzed attempts to evangelize the jews either directly, while reducing the symbolic role of religious education and creating alternatives for social integration without appealing to traditional community structures, or indirectly, by circumscribibg the feeble themes of the elementary religious education that seemed to raise the interest of educators of Christian denomination. All of Eastern Europe met, during the firste half of the 10th century, with the effects of Christian Protestant and Catholic missionary activities. In the context of the emancipation the Jews were even the more prone to giving in to the temptation of conversion as a way to integration. Using an adequate style and language and providing new information on this very little known chapter of the Moldavian Jewry's life, the author manages to bring in front of the reader the atmosphere of a long gone epoch, viewed from both the inside and the outside.

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